July 23, 2010

Stanislaw Barszczak —-In the Tatras —-

The heart yearns for mother’s memory upwards, towards the sky where the heaven look at us with its towers, to express admiration of time and difference of space.
High, rising into the sky rocks are around, some niche, certainly after a god of the past. And despite the fact that climbing in the mountains toward Summit of

‘Rysy'(Features) is not too clever feat and an achievement, such a perfect unity of life is impossible, we can not only join in a perfect obedience of the road, but

this time the nature lends of the place for grace. There is arising such a beautiful, sunny day in the life of a single man. Can there be a moment of pure presence in

the experience? Achieving all it seems to experience beyond time, beyond the possibility. Because we still will not say the last word ..But we recently gained Top of

‘Rysy’ again, not very hospitable to the lack of place. The other peaks can no longer enter the queue. But there is an iron cross in front of us, beautiful views all

around, close to five meters, nothing short of some perspective, appears to be about four meters above the summit ‘Rysy’ of Slovakia, here we sit a group of about half

an hour, phones are out of network coverage, a sudden downpour, begins the return of Polish descent, harder edge, using the same strings, escape before the storm …

What is our road, four adventurers, including two fellows, I have an obligation to go forward, not waiting, quickly go down there with a chain attached to rocky trail,

glacier from his morning chill as if melted, but the rain intensifies. We exit the new shelter at ‘Morskie oko'(the Naval eye), and after eleven hours of hiking in the

number of six persons to move from Lysa Polana to a village of Ząb, come in the highland house. Now I wonder, do you feel today, what I felt when we walked hand in

hand, in the spirit of this land better, this one, we would say, Rome and the May afternoon. We sang, I took a thought, which I know she tormented me for many times. I

had a picture before the eyes of the cave, “Belinsky” near Smokovec in Slovakia, where there are eight types of bats mocking our way … Now, help me hold on to here,

where even the stones are like the ruins of Roman buildings and some weeds. With had chocolate resting on ‘Morskie oko’ (the Marine eye), that an emerald mountain lake

is memorable, with its fish, sleeping with a view of an infinite pile of feathery grass on a pane Tatra basin, peace and passion, joy and peace, the eternal washing of

the air, the heat around, as if the spirit of the Roman had descend now here after his fall … And over it in half an hour, like the next degree of huge a staircase

to the sky stretches ‘Czarny staw’, Black pond with a water in the rocks a bit smaller. Piling up steeply slavish, though not as popnot so broken, but the white, bare

rocks seem to symbolize the third degree, a last, but very suddenly a high one of Tatras ladder toward human destiny … This is the only force present mountain road,

so climbing out from under the Black pond for three hours up a long walk in advance of Lysa Polana near the roar of mountain water, ‘Wodogrzmoty of Mickiewicz’, the

left side of the Sea of the eye, then ‘Czarny staw’, the Black pond. And before us the wonders of nature are in the game, yet some flowers, crocuses, small fish,

ducks, and our permission to the nature of her way, though increasingly intervenes in the person already here, where the sky looks from its towers! One carriage horse

with tourists attests to the continuity of my memory, for thirty years ago there was the huge traffic around …How do you say that? Let me be a soul not ashamed,let

the soul be naked as the earth under the sky at the top … the truth it is, or slow, you can, whether it is under our control to love or not love you… Mother

Nature, I want you to be for me always, you who are so much, not more, not yours, not mine, not a slave, not free. Tell me where is the faul? What is the kernel of my

wounds, the essence of things since it must already be? I want to adopt your will … look into my eyes, hear with your heart beating, drink my fullness in soul of

spring of yours. I grab the heat of your soul, strikes off the rose of eternal dreams. Now, once again coming down from the top I am going faster, skidding off the

track … I was under the influence of the phone’s silence, someone is turning my voice on the trail … but a love this moment may terminate a lot better than the

language … When I am far away from this minute, when a man was at the time, in other words, how could I clean up the river of Eger today, Hungarian town … Here I

go on, even as the thistle grow driven by the direction of light. And this time I seemed to learn exactly human, and there is still only the infinite passion and pain

of finite hearts. Although now he can still hear the words of tiny people, and you, like the human character of God’s victory: Be with God! Thinking of Poland in

polish so we must not forget the humanity of our heavenly homeland. A random, senseless, incoherent modernity, if you can live to be able to live with the polish and

dangerous mountain, with its eternal song of the fetters will.

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