WE REMEMBER GHETTO WARSAW!

Halina Birenbaum

Sounds
of a
guilty
silence

my life started from the end

my life started from the end

first I have known death,

then - birth

I was growing amidst hatred, in the kingdom of destruction

only to learn later about creation

breathing bleakness, fires, deterioration of feeling

this was the atmosphere of my childhood

only then I have seen the light

only then I have flourished.

I have always known love

even when it was terrible or worse!

love was there even in hell

I have encountered it!

my life began from the end and just then

everything returned to the beginning,

I was resurrected.

it was all not in vain, not in vain,

because goodness is not less powerful then evil

in me is strength too

I am the proof

Februaiy25, 1983

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