Poet's Corner: will the world die a little By Halina Poświatowska

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

will the world die a little By Halina Poświatowska
Translated from the Polish By Ryan Mihaly & Karolina Zapal (short note from the translator's if you're keen to know more

czy świat umrze trochę [Polish]

will the world die a little
when I die

I watch him going going
dressed in a fox collar

I could never be
a thread in that scarf

I was always here
he wasn’t

and yet
it’s nice to think
the world will die a little
when I die