Halina Birenbaum
Sounds
of a
guilty
silence
there is my soul
there among the ghosts
between the barracks
crematorium's ruins
silence full of murmurs
audible, visible but
only to me
faces figures
between present greenery
or whiteness of snow
futile moans, prayers
Dead and gone suspended forever
in the clouds over Auschwitz
on the ground, in the earth
in every pebble, speck of sand
speck of dust
over there among ashes ond bones
crushed mixed
crowds of souls in space
lost for eternity
also mine
it's not important where I live
when how or where I will die
or wherever in the world
they will bury my body
marked numer 48693
tattooed here
Herzliya - December 4.1994