Title: Still Young

Royal Club for Literature and Peace 

Title: Still Young

Kasia Dominik 

Title: Still Young

(On Grandparents' Day)

In the memory projector, like a mantra, I play a film

about a cottage in the woods, smelling of bread,

near which stood a well and a wooden bench,

grandfather's favorite habitat.

I remember how filigree violets grew under the fence,

the flowers of Grandma's youth, and by the woodshed stood

a ladder wagon drawn by roan horses.

I still feel the joy of running barefoot as a child

through a meadow drenched with spring

rain pearls.

In the recesses of my heart, I carefully preserve

the rosy faces, smiling souls

and those gazes, still young.

Dear Grandparents, thanks to you, I was

begotten to life.

Kasia Dominik

(Poland)

documentation :Waffaa Badarneh