...should we really have been surprised that within a year he would perpetrate a gruesome school shooting before taking his own life?
He wanders like a shadow
From door to door through the world;
Holding in his hands the oak panduri
and playing it tenderly;
In the sounds so full of dreams
As the rays of the sun,
You can hear pure truth
and divine love.
Many stony, frozen hearts
Started beating then,
Many blinded frozen minds
Turned to the light again.
But instead of gratitude
For the sounds as sweet as love,
The mob brought to the anchorite
The cup full of poison…
And they told him: “Drink it and be damned
To fulfill your destiny!
We do not need your truth,
Nor your heavenly voice!”
Soselo
(in: Iveria, 25 December 1895)
http://www.stalinmuseum.ge/eng/stalin/poems/
He wanders like a shadow
From door to door through the world;
Holding in his hands the oak panduri
and playing it tenderly;
In the sounds so full of dreams
As the rays of the sun,
You can hear pure truth
and divine love.
Many stony, frozen hearts
Started beating then,
Many blinded frozen minds
Turned to the light again.
But instead of gratitude
For the sounds as sweet as love,
The mob brought to the anchorite
The cup full of poison…
And they told him: “Drink it and be damned
To fulfill your destiny!
We do not need your truth,
Nor your heavenly voice!”
Soselo
(in: Iveria, 25 December 1895)
http://www.stalinmuseum.ge/eng/stalin/poems/