: Avoiding Death, I Rejected Life

Royal Club for Literature and Peace 

: Avoiding Death, I Rejected Life

Kasia Dominik 

Title: Avoiding Death, I Rejected Life

I left the house in the morning

taking nothing

but painless silence.

I left my name on the threshold

and let my hair loose in the wind

to disappear, to no longer be a body.

I fled from thoughts

that almost knew the wound.

I hid from the mirror

that remembered tears.

I (re)jected life –

a stone dragging me to the bottom

of the desert itself.

Searching for a breath

that didn't smell of fear,

that didn't tear me apart,

I found death, gentle as the first dawn.

And I no longer had to choose.

Kasia Dominik

(Poland)

documentation : Waffaa Badarneh