II
You were hiding, hiding, hiding your tracks.
A wall split and swallowed you up in its cracks,
When Satan's mignons, like worms,
Sought your breath.
Sought — not found, and drunk, moved away,
Suddenly: who's breathing the wall, looks for prey?
A Jew … Mogen Dovid[18] … Is it you, my child,
Or perhaps the savior?

S. Bak, illustration to Sutzkever's ghetto poems.
Wrong, wrong, the Jew has betrayed.
He drags by the hair, you are stunned and afraid.
Your hair turns white,
Covered with snow.