polandgallery:Polish Literature: I Bury The Enemy’s Body by Anna Świrszczyńska (1909 -
polandgallery: Polish Literature: I Bury The Enemy’s Body by Anna Świrszczyńska (1909 - 1984) Oh enemy, you too were afraid,though they gave you a splendid submachine gun.The fear in your eyesdied later than you.Your submachine killed many people, you stood many people against the wall,until for you too came the momentof human nothingness.Your children will mourn you,you were kingto your children. Oh enemy, I bury your bodyin the earth you stained with blood.It will receive youas though were not his enemy.■ Anna Świrszczyńska (also known as Anna Swir) (1909–1984) was a Polish poet whose works deal with themes including her experiences during World War II, motherhood, the female body, and sensuality. ■ Świrszczyńska was born in Warsaw in 1909 and grew up in poverty as the daughter of an artist. She began publishing her poems in the 1930s. During the Nazi occupation of Poland she joined the Polish resistance movement in World War II and was a military nurse during the Warsaw Uprising. Thirty years after the war, she published a book of poems about her experiences in that slaughter. It is called Building the Barricade. -- source link