miklos radnoti

• 1909- 1944 yılları arasında yaşamış olan macar şair. hitler rejiminin kurbanı olarak bir imha kam­pında öldü.
• macar yahudilerindendir. 44 kasım'ında 10'dan fazla arkadaşıyla vurularak öldürülmüştür. aşağıdaki son şiirini sırbistan'da kendisi gibi zorla tutulduğu yahudi savaş kampında yazmıştır. ölümünden sonra bulunmuştur.
  
  ''ı roll myself a cigarette, slowly, carefully. ı live...''
  
  clouded sky
  
  the moon hangs on a clouded sky.
  ı am surprised that ı live.
  anxiously and with great care, death looks for us
  and those it finds are all terribly white.
  
  sometimes a year looks back and howls
  then drops to its knees.
  autumn is too much for me. ıt waits again
  and winter with waits its dull pain.
  
  the forest bleeds. the hours bleed.
  time spins overhead
  and the wind scrawls
  big dark numbers on the snow.
  
  but ı am still here
  and ı know why and why the air feels heavy -
  a warm silence full of tiny noises circles me
  just as it was before my birth.
  
  ı stop at the foot of a tree,
  ıts leaves cry with anger.
  a branch reaches down. ıs it strangling me?
  ı am not a coward. ı am not weak, ı am
  
  tired. and silent. and the branch
  is also mute and afraid as it enters my hair.
  ı should forget it, but ı
  forget nothing.
  
  clouds pour across the moon. anger
  leaves a poisonous dark-green bruise on the sky.
  ı roll myself a cigarette,
  slowly, carefully. ı live.