WE REMEMBER GHETTO WARSAW!
Halina Birenbaum
Sounds
of a
guilty
silence
in Stutthof
Six fifteen. Stutthof
I am speechless
I am unable to say anything
everything I say or write
is a cliche'
artificial
gray and wet all around
after rain
tears in my throat on my cheeks
there is no prayer
I just exist
with this power of death
exterminated
this death is in me
my life expressions in it
those are precisely the tears
- can tears be also a prayer?
May 5, 1995