Halina Birenbaum
Sounds
of a
guilty
silence
my legend
I have my own legend
guarding it
listening to it
bygone life
is my legend
present days -
is the result of this
without it nothing makes any sense
in my legend - a family
me, clinging to them
small
and turned to stone from terror
removed violently
in my legend - unseen world wiped out
I bear it - trembling
forever tied to it
with thousand bonds, even when it was terrible
my legend - my parents
brother, his young wife
childhood friends
common people
their present annulled
contributed to the legend unintentionally
for eternity
July28 1983