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***
I fall asleep with a yearning
for your lips
JULIUSZ WĄTROBA
I wake up in an empty bed
full of you
***
Your feminity a flowery meadow
My masculinity brambles
I enter your life
on tiptoes
with my willpower - if you will?
you turn a blind eye on me
and disregard
the burden of feelings
Polish Poet, satirist, prose writer, columnist;
lyrical debut in the magazine Radar,
satirical debut in Szpilki (1977),
book debut in Wydawnictwo Śląsk (1983);
author of over 50 books, hundreds of song
lyrics, musicals, cabaret shows; member
of the cabaret group TON; hundreds of
poems published in the press and in various
collective editions; cooperation with the
Polish Radio between 1989 and 2004, where
his works were read by some of the county’s
most outstanding actors; winner
of approximately 100 literary contests,
and of numerous awards for his literary
and cultural achevements. He is a member
of the Polish Writers Union and the Polish
Society of Authors and Composers (ZAIKS)
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I know you don’t love me
And there’s nothing I can do
Nothing anyone can do
But if I could use fidelity
yearning and pain
to beg for
love
you would have been
mine
a long time ago
***
You lead me into temptation
non-fulfilment
and perdition
What have I done to deserve
this all-consuming despair
without your breath
to take in
and to take away
translated by Jarosław Fejdych
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