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Agleaya
Bad, bad always and everywhere
This black thread is spinning:
It is behind me, in front of me and next to me,
It in every breath
It in every smile
It is in tears, in prayer and in hymns...
*
I won't tear it because it's strong,
Maybe it's holy, although it's wrong,
Maybe I don't want to tear this ribbon;
But everywhere - oh! everywhere,
Wherever I am, this one will be:
Here it enters open books,
It is tied there among the flowers,
It's going to get narrow somewhere
To spin in autumn meadows
And gradually faint,
To reconcile
And it will grow back into a link.
*
But, without whimpering like a child,
I'll fight it out once.
Let them give me the cup and the wreath!...
And I put it on my forehead,
And I drank, and all around
One says to the other: "Madman!!"
*
So searching I put my hand to my heart
But suddenly the right hand froze:
They laughed loudly at me,
I was left without a hand,
A black noose wrapped around my hand.
*
Bad, bad always and everywhere
This black thread is spinning:
It is behind me, in front of me and next to me,
It in every breath
It in every smile
It in tears, in prayer and in hymns.
*
But, without whimpering like a child,
I'll fight it out once;
Goldenstring, don't leave my lute!
I am from Czarnoleski*
I want - let it heal the heart!
And I played...
...and I feel even sadder.
I wrote in Florence in 1844.
Cyprian Kamil Norwid
*Polish noble family
edit on 11:11:2023 by Agleaya because: "she" to "it" (mistranslation)