WE REMEMBER GHETTO WARSAW!
Halina Birenbaum
Sounds
of a
guilty
silence
a tourist among tombs
what can I tell you about Lublin or Cracow
about old Wieliczka or theaters in Warsaw
when my heart bleeds among countless tombs in Treblinka
in nightmarish silence in Majdanek
the skeletons of the barracks are still screaming
in Auschwitz
with a sound that makes my soul die all over again
what sense makes having all the good impressions
when all those places are weighing so heavy on me
erasing from the earth's surface all those human beings
nevertheless, I am a tourist among tombs
even the nonexistent ones