Halina Birenbaum
Sounds
of a
guilty
silence
go and visit Treblinka
go and visit Treblinka
open your eyes wide
sharpen your hearing
hold your breath in highest concentration
listen intently to the voices rising there
from every little grain of the soil
do go and visit Treblinka
they are waiting there for you
thirsty to hear the sounds and signs of your existence
to hear your footsteps
a humen glance, remembrance, understanding
a breath of love on their ashes
by all means - go to Treblinka
from your own free will
go to Treblinka with all the power of your pain
over the atrocities that happen there...
with the deepest understanding
with a heart that cries out and does not agree
hear them out
with all your senses see Treblinka
the green, golden or white silence will tell you
countless stories
of a life forbidden impossible
and then taken away...
go to Treblinka
take a look on how time stands still there
hear that standing time
thunderous dead silence
a stony model of human beings
crying in the solitude
go to Treblinka and experience it for a moment
go to Treblinka to plant a flower sprinkled with hot tears
and a human sigh
near one of the memorial stones
which commemorate extinct compatriots
they are all waiting for you in Treblinka
so you can hear their tales which rise into the air
merge with them through indentification you all share
convey to them every time
the news of your life's duration
so forbidden than
and about your everlasting love
go to Treblinka through generations and all distances
don't leave them lonely...
September1986