WE REMEMBER GHETTO WARSAW!
Halina Birenbaum
Sounds
of a
guilty
silence
my life started from the end
my
life started from the endfirst 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