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...

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