Preferred Citation: Sutzkever, A. A. Sutzkever: Selected Poetry and Prose. Berkeley:  University of California Press,  c1991 1991. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft5q2nb3z7/

 
Written in Vilna Ghetto (1941–1943)

II

You won't fool me: I know you are dead.
Though you live in my dream. Why do they char
Your heart, three roses in scarlet red?
Don't cover up.
I know who they are!

Don't cover up, Mama, you can't fool your child!
How can they bloom here, three roses unheard?
I see three bullets, purple and wild:
The first, the second, the third.

Written in Vilna Ghetto (1941–1943)
 

Preferred Citation: Sutzkever, A. A. Sutzkever: Selected Poetry and Prose. Berkeley:  University of California Press,  c1991 1991. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft5q2nb3z7/