[God has not retired...] Poem by Tadeusz Dąbrowski

[God has not retired...]



God has not retired - as Simone Weil
would have it - a huge distance away, but He's
right here, so close that I can feel His

caring non-presence. (Which is a word passed over
in silence, an aborted gesture, a suspended
gaze,
a breath held for a moment. That

not breathing, that's your life.)

Translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones

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