Truth has no eyes
no face
no tongue
truth is wingless
it doesn’t live
beyond the seven seas hills forests
I think that truth
is more like a nagging growth
that gnaws inside
I think it’s
that sticky thing
rolled into a ball somewhere under your skin
it hates comfort
it suddenly swells
and sends out desperate signals
dark ones like a deaf-mute’s moving hands
it hurts
it chokes
you can’t keep quiet any longer
you scream
---Urszula Koziol
(Translated by Stanislaw Baranczak and Clare Cavanagh;
no face
no tongue
truth is wingless
it doesn’t live
beyond the seven seas hills forests
I think that truth
is more like a nagging growth
that gnaws inside
I think it’s
that sticky thing
rolled into a ball somewhere under your skin
it hates comfort
it suddenly swells
and sends out desperate signals
dark ones like a deaf-mute’s moving hands
it hurts
it chokes
you can’t keep quiet any longer
you scream
---Urszula Koziol
(Translated by Stanislaw Baranczak and Clare Cavanagh;