Zinaida Gippius - Бессилье - 🇷🇺

Описание: “Бессилье” (Powerlessness) by Zinaida Gippius is presented here as a musicalized poem immersed in a haunting, introspective atmosphere, where voice and silence enter into a fragile dialogue with the weight of the text. Beneath its stark and yearning surface, the poem unfolds as an inner landscape of spiritual paralysis and existential tension — a state in which longing persists, faith feels near yet inaccessible, and the will remains suspended in unresolved desire.

The emotional world of the piece is one of restrained intensity. Rather than release, it cultivates stillness; rather than catharsis, it dwells in suspension. The listener is drawn into a space where effort leads nowhere and hope does not vanish, but lingers painfully out of reach. This tension gives the poem its quiet severity, transforming impotence into a form of contemplation.

Zinaida Gippius emerges here not as a historical figure to be explained, but as a living consciousness. Her Symbolist voice speaks from a threshold — between belief and doubt, presence and absence, devotion and rebellion. The poem resonates with a distinctly inward struggle, where the divine is felt as proximity without grace, and the soul confronts the silence that answers prayer.

The musicalization does not attempt reconstruction or illustration. Instead, it offers continuity — allowing the poem’s emotional gravity to breathe within a contemporary sensibility that honors its original tension. Time collapses, and the text feels neither distant nor archival, but immediate and unresolved, as if spoken from within the listener’s own interior space.

In its totality, the experience is immersive and austere. Sound and voice intertwine to sustain a single emotional state: a lucid, painful awareness of powerlessness that refuses consolation. What remains is not resolution, but clarity — the kind that emerges when longing is fully acknowledged and allowed to exist without relief.

📜 Poem: Zinaida Gippius – Бессилье
🎶 Musicalization & performance: Enchanted Verse