The Return Poem by Tadeusz Rozewicz

The Return

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Suddenly the window will open
and Mother will call
it's time to come in

the wall will part
I will enter heaven in muddy shoes

I will come to the table
and answer questions rudely

I am all right leave me
alone. Head in hand I
sit and sit. How can I tell them
about that long
and tangled way.

Here in heaven mothers
knit green scarves

flies buzz

Father dozes by the stove
after six days' labour.

No--surely I can't tell them
that people are at each
other's throats.


Translated by Adam Czerniawski

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Ekram 31 December 2018

Beautiful. Almost a revelation

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Dutendra Chamling 29 November 2015

....No- surely I can't tell them that people are at each other's throats.... Powerful poem.

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