Apprehensive Respect

Standing naked at the edge of former order

The world known from unimportant memories

I fall silent with the sense of boundless alienation

Uncertainty undermines my further existence

Spreading in my heart the unbearable longing

For the laws of concentration camps

The time of dehumanization and contempt was my time

The time of formulating thoughts, steering the potential

The time of barbed wires and crematory glow was our time

The time of deeming values, receiving attitudes

My outlook distorted in immaturity

Moulded by inhuman times and acts

Fights with the common consciousness of crime

The world of mass genocide and murderous work

The world of ruthless executioners and gas chambers

The world of ubiquitous punishments and hunger terror

With the apprehensive respect I considered as mine

Being overwhelmed by the restored reality

I look apathetically for my own fate

In the lost world of reversed Decalogue