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About the project
is based on the stories of my grandfathers,
who fought on opposing sides in the second world war.
The
book addresses the emotional impact and imprint which war leaves in families.
The pain, the trauma, the loss of emotional accessibility which lives on for generations.
grandfathers poem, written after release from Soviets 1945
Life and its imposed laws are bewildering
The clever ones, trembling
recognise the
inescapable net
that hidden powers
lay before our foot steps
The guilty or the righteous
never know who
holds them
never know what steers them
It is difficult to know its meaning
Everyone remains lonely and
estranged
Fear is its only gain
Mourning and intoxication and forgetting
rock his courage into sleep
when he has measured
the strangeness
and nothing familiar was found
I still found no one sad
But the poet provides consolation
for the many who weep
when
he sings of this mystery
Oh, but it remains mysterious
never to be understood and huge
yet the poet describes it
as his most cherished fate