Dikt; The Butterfly
The Butterfly
The last, the very last,
So richly, brightly, dazzlingly yellow.
Perhaps if the sun’s tears would sing
against a white stone....
Such, such a yellow
Is carried lightly ’way up high.
It went away I’m sure
because it wished
to kiss the world good-bye.
For seven weeks I’ve lived in here,
Penned up inside this ghetto.
But I have found what I love here.
The dandelions call to me
And the white chestnut branches in the court.
Only I never saw another butterfly.
That butterfly was the last one.
Butterflies don’t live in here, in the ghetto.
~ Pavel Friedman, 4. juni, 1942
Født i Praha, 7. januar 1921.
Deportert til Terezin konsentrasjonsleir 26. april 1942.
Døde i Auschwitz 29. september 1944.
The last, the very last,
So richly, brightly, dazzlingly yellow.
Perhaps if the sun’s tears would sing
against a white stone....
Such, such a yellow
Is carried lightly ’way up high.
It went away I’m sure
because it wished
to kiss the world good-bye.
For seven weeks I’ve lived in here,
Penned up inside this ghetto.
But I have found what I love here.
The dandelions call to me
And the white chestnut branches in the court.
Only I never saw another butterfly.
That butterfly was the last one.
Butterflies don’t live in here, in the ghetto.
~ Pavel Friedman, 4. juni, 1942
Født i Praha, 7. januar 1921.
Deportert til Terezin konsentrasjonsleir 26. april 1942.
Døde i Auschwitz 29. september 1944.
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