A Poem A Day from the George Hail Library ~ Selected by Maria Horvath: To My Friends

A Poem A Day from the George Hail Library ~ Selected by Maria Horvath: To My Friends
Excerpt:
...you
Who are reading me: remember the time
Before the wax hardened,
When everyone was like a seal.
Each of us bears the imprint
Of a friend met along the way;
In each the trace of each.
For good or evil
In wisdom or in folly
Everyone stamped by everyone.

Now that the time crowds in
And the undertakings are finished,
To all of you the humble wish
That autumn will be long and mild.

~ Primo Levi (1919-1987), Italian chemist and writer and poet, whose many works, especially If This Is a Man, his memoir of his year at Auschwitz, examined man’s struggles to maintain his humanity in the face of great evil
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It is one friend in the times when the camp became a bog that enabled him to endure, to survive at all and stumble out of Auschwitz. It is Primo Levi, as well as Elie Wiesel, that sing from deeps.