ELIZA SEGIET

 

 

 

Hue

 

This is not a color game

everyone knows that

green means the road is free,

yellow - Note! Danger!

Red - Stop!

 

Other hues

don’t warn, don’t inform,

they really bother some

black to them is more than just murk.

It can’t be hidden under any coat.

 

At times it is a curse of their existence,

Nevertheless, they try showing,

telling:

We’re the same as others.

The color of our skin

can’t be a summons

to kill and to destroy a human.

 

It’s not a color game,

it’s life.

Power Of Wisdom

 

To Tatyanie Fazlalizadeh

Gender nor skin color

can’t be igniters of aggression

Experiencing the world,

without torment from anyone,

is a human right.

For when being broken

must through power of wisdom

fight the lack of understanding.

 

Defensive force

Is not derived from the void

because

the body’s color is but a hull.

Inside it live

memories, plans,

dignity,

which no one’s allowed to take away

 

 

 

Spite

 

To Abiy Ahmed Ali

Laureate of Nobel Peace Prize in 2019

 

Not the one that was read

but the one that was lived,

the war drama

showed him, what is hell on

earth.

He was there.

Got to know bitterness of time,

of a brother killing a brother.

 

Luck, maybe destiny

let him live through     

and create a better tomorrow.

 

He knew that the imaginary wall

between two countries

must be replaced by the bridge of friendship.

 

Peace exists

when there is justice.

To spite hatred and discord -

 

love, reconciliation, forgiveness

build harmony.

 

Translated Ula de B

 

ELIZA SEGIET

 

ELIZA SEGIET graduated with a Master's Degree in Philosophy, completed postgraduate studies in Cultural Knowledge, Philosophy at Jagiellonian University. Received Global Literature Guardian Award – from Motivational Strips, World Nations Writers Union and Union Hispanomundial De Escritores (UHE) 2018. Nominated for the Pushcart Prize 2019 and 2021. Laureate Naji Naaman Literary Prize 2020. Laureate International Award Paragon of Hope (2020). Laureate World Award 2020 Cesar Vallejo for Literary Excellence. Laureate of the Special Jury Sahitto International Award 2021 Laureate World Award Premiul Fănuș Neagu 2021. Finalist Golden Aster Book World Literary Prize 2020. It is in the last stage of an international competition Mili Dueli 2020.