As friendship is now in vogue,
And who is not friends – in sorrow.
The world is in every home,
Where friendship, happiness – the sea.

Without a friend, the house is a dungeon,
And with a friend, heaven is a kibitka.
The poet wrote. Firebird,
She moves into the heart.

Without friendship – fear, anxiety,
In the hearts of people is hidden.
Without friendship it is very difficult,
Only friendship is kept honor.

Without friendship, grief, malice
Searing all souls.
Without friendship,
It’s stuffy in the wide world.

Without a friend, the house is a dungeon,
The master is poor, a beggar.
After all, friendship is a Firebird,
What is sent by the Almighty!

Rahim Karim Karimov is an Uzbek-Russian-Kyrgyz poet, writer, publicist, translator. He was born in 1960 in the city of Osh (Kyrgyzstan). Graduate of the Moscow Gorky Literary Institute (1986). Member of the National Union of Writers of the Kyrgyz Republic, member of the Russian Writers’ Union, official representative of the International Federation of Russian-Speaking Writers in Kyrgyzstan (London-Budapest), member of the Board of the IFRW, laureate of the Republican Literary Prize named after Moldo Niyaz.