About the book: 2009 / Collection of poems by the Athonite monk - rather not poetry, in the usual sense, but pain splashed out in in an unusual poetic form, a cry for the sin-torn Motherland, for one’s soul. In the frankness of a naked heart, the difficult fate of the author is clearly visible, in whose memory is the sultry sun of the Afghan war and the darkness of the taiga paths, the light of the theater footlights and the quiet flickering of the Optina lamps... The collection is compiled in chronological order. Some poems are published with minor abbreviations