Halina Birenbaum

Sounds
of a
guilty
silence

it cries in me

not often I know how to laugh

I don't like jokes, frivolity

not because I find it evil

but because for me they are luxury

riches difficult to achieve

there is a sea of sadness in me

sorrowful tears

unfinished wrongs

incurable wounds

hushed up moans

it cries in me when from my eyes tears flow

when I work quietly

when I speak to people normally

when lively and freely

I go about my housework

it cries when I lean over my child's bed

when I worry about his well-being

when I am glad seeing his grace and progress

when I think about his future

and compare it with my own

it cries in me when I am held in loving arms

when I am the object of caressing glances

mouth melting hot kisses

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it cries in me when I am among friends

when I am drinking ceremonial toasts

when listening to happy music

cries with anxiety, apprehension about them

cries with happiness for their existence

sorrow of passing

rise and decline of love

friendships - life

cries with pain of terrible memories

comparisons and greatest fear

that it somehow might happen again

November26, 1967

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