She Does Not Remember Poem by Anna Swirszczynska

She Does Not Remember

Rating: 3.2


She was an evil stepmother.
In her old age she is slowly dying
in an empty hovel.

She shudders
like a clutch of burnt paper.
She does not remember that she was evil.
But she knows
that she feels cold.


Translated from the Polish by Czeslaw Milosz and Leonard Nathan

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Ratnakar Mandlik 11 February 2017

Human weakness of forgetting shortcomings of self magnanimously reflected in this meaningful and thought provoking poem.

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