I know there is much on your mind
School, bureaucracy, the future, etc.
I want to offer you something
I wouldn’t say this to just anyone
(But maybe someone else
Has already given you what I have in mind
In which case I’ll smile
Knowing you’ve already been so blessed)
It would make no impression on most people
They’d forget it one-and-a-half seconds later
But you’re different
I think you’d be interested
I have held your notebook
I have heard your voice
I have seen you possessed when scribbling
I have picked up your exuberant bibliophile vibe
(Tell me now, are you equally exuberant
When it comes to upper-level econ classes?)
This is something that could change your life
(It’s changing mine)
It could be a bell of mindfulness
Bringing you back to your true Polish self
See what I have to share is so simple
It’s just three syllables:
Szymborska
Let me know when you want to go to Left Bank Books
