Tadeusz Borowski - Dedication

Staszek, my old friend,
from all the prisons of the earth
I come back to you
in a flight of poetry.

Darkness strangles my flight,
forces it down and knocks it to the ground.
Pick it up carefully, Staszek,
like a body thrown to the pavement.

Tadeusz Borowski

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