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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.

Tadeusz Rozewicz - Polish poet , playwright and novelist born October 9, 1921 in Radomsko . He died in 2014 . In Wroclaw. Polish poet , playwright , novelist and screenwriter , member of the VI Department of Artistic Creativity Polish Academy of Sciences ; brother Janusz and Stanislaus , the father of John and Camille

A Poem read by Lukasz Furtek