I CANNOT ESCAPE
I cannot escape
I make the same efforts
Over and over
I hope blindly
The next time will be different-
It is not
I do what I do
And I do it again and again-
I need a new way
A way out-
I have no idea whatsoever how to find it-
The sages are right
One cannot escape the prison by oneself-
I do not know what to do-
Writing this poem is too
Once again doing the same thing
That did not work previously-
How will I get out?
With the years
With the repeated discouragements
Closer to the end
More and more I fear
This is it
I will never get out-
And when the day of reckoning comes
It will be far worse
More pain and humiliation=
In the last years
Even a worse prison
Than I have known until now.
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem