Title: Bloody Morning Awakening

Royal Club for Literature and Peace 

Title: Bloody Morning Awakening

Kasia Dominik

Title: Bloody Morning Awakening

September brought smoke and fire,

planes ripped through the sky,

and the earth trembled under the tracks.

Poland, awakened amid alarms,

stood alone,

with a sword too short,

with a heart that could not be broken.

Borders burned,

cities fell silent in ruins,

forests welcomed those

who refused to surrender.

On that day, the childhood of an era died.

The nation learned to exist

through pain

and to speak with a voice

that bombs could not drown out.

Kasia Dominik

(Poland)

documentation: Waffaa Badarneh