Title: Even though you're gone,

you're still there

Royal Club for Literature and Peace 

Title: Even though you're gone,

you're still there

Kasia Dominik (Poland)

Title: Even though you're gone, you're still there.

I get up. The sky wakes up without me.

Empty and cold, as if waiting for us both.

As if it were waiting for days when

the world had a different taste,

a different scent. There was room in it

for conversation, laughter, and silence..

I miss the moments

when we sat above the world,

when time was a friend,

and words connected like a bridge..

You taught me to look to see more.

To notice the silence among the trees and rocks..

Now I'm alone in the mountains

with the shadow of your presence.

I look for you in the sunlight,

in the roar of the mountain breeze,

in the footsteps on Giewont..

You were a father, a teacher,

a friend—a breath.

The thoughtlessness you left behind

is an endless horizon,

an echo that fades in the heart

but never dies.

I look east,

as we once did together –

and I know that even though you are gone,

you are still here.

Kasia Dominik (Poland)

documentation : Waffaa Badarneh