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With Head On My Rifle

I hear at nights, as it getting closer
trembling and playing, the ring is closing
And i was sculptured by fast stream
I was swinged in clouds cradle
And to me it were wide waters
carried by birds
of wild elder; the fertile clouds
were to me as mother's smile
The slow ring day and night is rounding
with blade cutting close to my lips,
and to me, as to others,
land was rising full, not empty
And to me after all, like pile of smoke
dove-like youthness springed out;

Now, on the ground of death i raise
me - wild son of my nation
The ring as with knife slowly cuts,
it will cut the light, before the day will pass
And I will sleep through the time of great sculpturing
with heavy head on my rifle;
Surrounded by chaos of events;
with sharp ring tore into two parts
I will throw my head against the wind as grenade
My torso will be crushed by time with heavy paw

Because it was shyness of life
And courage, when death was carried
You will have to die, when you loved
Great Things with Stupid Love

by Krzysztof Kamil Baczynski

Original Polish: )
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The Elegy for .. [Polish boy]

They have separated you, my little son, from the dreams, which are trembling like butterflies
The were weaving you, my little son, your sad eyes wth red blood
They painted you landscapes with yellow stitches of fires
They were weaving with hanging men sea flowing with trees
They teached you, my little son, your land to remember
when you have cut her tracks with steel tears
They raised you in darkness, they fed you with bread of fear
you have crossed groping your way through most shameful of men's ways
and you left, my little light son, with dark gun into the night
and you felt how the evil is bristling in sounds of minutes
before you fell, you crossed the land with your hand
was it a bullet, my little son, or it was your heart which broke?

By Krzysztof Kamil Baczynski

Elegia o ... [chłopcu polskim]

Oddzielili cie, syneczku, od snów, co jak motyl drżą,
haftowali ci, syneczku, smutne oczy rudą krwią,
malowali krajobrazy w żółte ściegi pożóg,
wyszywali wisielcami drzew płynące morze.
Wyuczyli cię, syneczku, ziemi twej na pamięć,
gdyś jej ścieżki powycinał żelaznymi łzami.
Odchowali cię w ciemności, odkarmili bochnem trwóg,
przemierzyłeś po omacku najwstydliwsze z ludzkich dróg.
I wyszedłeś, jasny synku, z czarną bronią w noc,
i poczułeś, jak się jeży w dźwięku minut - zło.
Zanim padłeś, jeszcze ziemię przeżegnałeś ręką.
Czy to była kula, synku, czy to serce pekło?

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