@tibianchini
1 year ago
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Gdánsk
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I put my eyes out of the house,
To try to see a friendly face.
I saw the walls of peeled bricks,
With pamphlets glued together, crying out for the people,
Retrieved by the soot from the Panzer mats.
I tried to spy on some movement:
I sharpened my ears to try to listen
Did they say anything about those old men in their coats?
Giving the dogs bread brains on the sidewalk;
If there were still sounds in Don Sprzyja
Where the old whores used to hang
For the customers' caresses and coins.
I tried to open the nostrils.
To catch the sweet smell of cornbread,
The acre smell of the fish shop on Fridays
The smell of cat urine, walking in the guide.
I couldn't: the only move
It came from rats dragging pieces.
From the Boaterowie carcasses, still on the floor.
The loudest sound still came
From the gorge of the doves in and out
From the roofs torn by the bombs,
And the holes in the peeled bricks.
The nostrils could only capture
The rest of the sulfur from the gunpowder,
Of the burnt flesh of the mieszkańcow,
And the German sperm, on the already dried blood
The ladies of Don Sprzyja.
I put my eyes out of my soul
To try to see a look back
Coming from another lost soul.
And all I saw was scattered looks
From the old soldiers, serving as a bed
For the flies of the walrus,
Remembering the end of our lives,
From our Polska,
The first and last day in Westerplatte.
Those who have destroyed are gone;
They wanted nothing here but destruction.
For simple destruction.
The dust still flies in the wind,
Without finding a place to rest,
Clouding even more the cloudy day.
Zmiłuj!...
Vernichtung.
The ones they destroyed didn't destroy
Just houses, shops and people.
They destroyed me.
They destroyed themselves.
I'm nothing anymore.
Neither do they.
I put my eyes out of life,
To try not to see anymore;
To look with the eyes of longing
Those sunny afternoons
Yellowing the peeled red bricks...
(Gdansk was the former name of the Polish city of Danzig, before its destruction in the Second War. I preferred to refer to the original noe as a reminder of the dead residents)