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On an island, by the cathedral

I stood in silence, but could not pray

for my prayer has no meaning

now my father has gone away

Was he angry at my being

is that why his kind hand has gone?

is he frozen in a distant seaport

with the door closed on his little son?

Was he poisoned in his trusting

when he was a child himself?

is his kind soul slowly rusting

like a horseshoe on a rainy shelf?

With a hand burned by snowy railings

at the opening of harbour bars

and the frightend eyes of children

and the low boom of distant war

Now my mother sits in darkness

and she’s lonely as winter earth

with a candle on the table

casting shadows on my lonely birth

I was lonely by the river

on a sunday cold afternoon

I walked thru your wounded city

and wrote this sad polish song

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