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Mirco Giuseppe Camia, Italy

from Part II - Searching for the Purpose of Suffering: Despair—Accusation—Hope

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

Edited by
Dorothea Heiser  and
Stuart Taberner
Dorothea Heiser
Affiliation:
Holds an MA from the University of Freiburg
Stuart Taberner
Affiliation:
Professor of Contemporary German Literature
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Summary

Il martire

Loro

non posero sulla tua fronte

un serto spinoso

Loro

non irrisero alla tua sete

bagnando le labbra di fiele

Loro

non trapassarono le tue membra

con ferri appuntiti

Tu

sul tuo Golgota

non cadesti tre volte

sulla tua strada

non ci fu il lino della Samaritana

un sepolcro

una madre pietosa

a detergerti il sangue dal volto

Non ci saranno

venti secoli di storia per te

Anzi

l'uomo è già sceso

e il tuo martirio

soprafatto da altri martirii

Il fumo che si è levato

è da tempo disperso

nella memoria

e non risorgerai

dalle tue ceneri

1945

The Martyr

They

did not place on your forehead

a crown of thorns

They

did not mock your thirst

by wetting your lips with vinegar

They

did not pierce your limbs

with sharp nails

You

on your Golgotha

did not fall three times

on your path

there was no Samaritan's linen

no tomb

no merciful mother

to wipe away the blood from your face

There will not be

Twenty centuries of history for you

In fact

man has already fallen

and your martyrdom

is outshone by other martyrdoms

The smoke which rose

has long been dispersed

in memory

and you will not rise

from your ashes

1945—Translated by Louise Heritage
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My Shadow in Dachau
Poems by Victims and Survivors of the Concentration Camp
 , pp. 170 - 171
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Print publication year: 2014

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