De Poolse dichter en schrijver Tadeusz Różewicz werd geboren in Radomsko op 9 oktober 1921. Tadeusz Różewicz is op 24 april van dit jaar op 92-jarige leeftijd overleden. Zie ook mijn blog van 9 oktober 2010 en eveneens alle tags voor Tadeusz Różewicz op dit blog.
Lament
I turn to you high priests
teachers judges artists
shoemakers physicians officials
and to you my father
Hear me out.
I am not young
let the slenderness of my body
not deceive you
not the tender whiteness of my neck
nor the fairness of my open brow
nor the down on my sweet lip
nor my cherubic laughter
nor the spring in my step
I am not young
let my innocence
not move you
nor my purity
nor my weakness
fragility and simplicity
I am twenty years old
I am a murderer
I am an instrument
blind as the axe
in the hands of an executioner
I struck a man dead
and with red fingers
stroked the white breats of women.
Maimed I saw
neither heaven nor rose
nor bird nest tree
St. Francis
Achilles nor Hector
For six years
blood gushed steaming from my nostrils
I do not believe in the changing of water into wine
I do not believe in the remission of sins
I do not believe in the resurrection of the body
Vertaald door Magnus J. Krynski en Robert A. Maguire
Deposition of the Burden
He came to you
and said
you are not responsible
either for the world or for the end of the world
the burden is taken from your shoulders
you are like birds and children
play
so they play
they forget
that modern poetry
is a struggle for breath
Vertaald door Czeslaw Milosz
Tadeusz Różewicz (9 oktober 1921 – 24 april 2014)