Całkiem inny kraj [English translation]

In broad daylight, a guy approached me.

A grey, rather plain face.

He looked into my eyes and said impassively:

"Will you give me something? I’m terribly hungry.

Maybe HIV is ravaging me, but I’m hungry".

I still cannot get used

to the images that I know from cinema.

Somehow I cannot get it into my head,

that now it’s a completely different country.

In broad daylight, I can hear a whistle of a bullet.

Another shot and a cry hits the sky.

The sidewalk gets stained with blood, glass panes are falling.

Like in a dream, a coat flies from a window.

I don’t know if she had reached the age of seventeen.

I still cannot get used

to the images that I know from cinema.

Somehow I cannot get it into my head,

that now it’s a completely different country.