I DID NOT MANAGE TO SAVE -by Jerzy Ficowski

I DID NOT MANAGE TO SAVE

-by Jerzy Ficowski (1924-2006)

I did not manage to save
A single life

I did not know how to stop
A single bullet

And I wander around cemeteries
Which are not there

I look for words
Which are not there

I run
To help where no one called

To rescue after the event
I want to be on time

Even if I am too late

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- translated from the Polish of Jerzy Ficowski (1924-2006) by Keith Bosely & Krystyna Wandycz