Poetry

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By

Eliza Segiet

Why

When will this nightmare end?

We live hidden,

we hear the gunshots.

Rats run between us.

There – at the top – people are afraid of their own shadows.

What and to whom can one say?

No one will nark when

you are silent,

you don’t go out

where the world

is waiting to take revenge on us.

We fall asleep

when the sound of hatred dies away.

Dada, when will we wake up?

Maybe they will not wake us up.

Why?

It will be for the better.

Sleep now, my dear.

As Once Did

From every alley

the Magnetic People attracted.

Then death

was born more often than life.

Our God, who is in us,

let us live to see tomorrow.

Do not take away the future.

Onto the bomb craters

poured down a rain of tears.

Some lasted

until the uncertain tomorrow.

The Magnetic attracted,

as once did

the Crucified.

Flashes

In a place

out of sight

wreathed flashes

of the past days, nights, years.

Failure has left

disobedient dreams.

Too late he understood

that time

melts.

Eliza Segiet

Eliza Segiet, Master’s Degree graduate in Philosophy, completed postgraduate studies in Cultural Knowledge, Philosophy, Arts and Literature at Jagiellonian University, as well as Film and Television Production in Lodz. 

Publications: Poetry Collections:”Romans z soba” (Sowello 2013), Myslne miraze” (Miniatura 2014, II Edition: Sowello 2017),”Chmurnosc” (Signo 2016), Including: Monodrama “Przeswity” (Signo 2015), Farce “Tandem” (Signo 2017). 

Author of the Month (June 2017) in The Year of the Poet 14 in the USA, Author’s poem “Questions” was the Publication of the Month (August 2017) in Spillwords Press, International Publication of the Year (2017) in Spillwords Press, Laureate of the International Special Prize “Frang Bardhi – 2017?, Author of The Month of January/February (2018) in Spilword Press. Author of The Month of January/February (2018) in Spilword Press. Author of the Month (May 2018) in the Indian Our Poetry Archive. Nominated for the Publication of the Month (May 2018) for the poem “My World” in Spillwords Press. Nomination for the Author of the Month (May 2018) in Spillwords Press. Nominated for the Publication of the Month (June 2018) for the poem “Evil Ones” in Spillwords Press. Author of the Month (July 2018) in The Year of the Poet in the USA.

Author’s works can be found in anthologies and literary magazines in Poland and abroad (Albania, Australia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Philippines, India, Israel, Canada, Kosovo, Singapore, Scotland, Spain, Sweden, USA, United Kingdom, Zambia).