What has happened to our class,
Asks Adam in Tel Aviv
It’s hard to cope with these times
It’s hard to live honestly at all
What has happened to our class?
Wojtek in Sweden,in a porno club,
Writes-they pay me well here
For something, that I like anyway.

Kasia and Piotrek are in Canada,
Because there they have better prospects,
Staszek manages in the States,
Pawel got accustomed to Paris,
Gosia with Przemek barely get by,
In May there will be third brat,
In vain they keep complaining to authorities,
They would like to the West as well,

But Magda is in Madrid
And getting married to a Spaniard,
Maciek lost his life in December,
When they were making rounds through flats,
Janusz,who was envied,
for always being on top of every wave,
Is a surgeon,heals people,
But his brother hanged himself.

Marek is locked up for refusing
To shoot at Michal,
And I write their stories,
Because this is the entire class now.
There is also Filip,physicist in Moscow-
Today he collects all kinds of awards,
Travels,whenever he wants to Poland,
Was received by Prime Minister.

I have found my entire class-
In exile,inthe country,in graves,
But something has changed,
Everybody scrapes a living for themselves-
I have found my entire class,
Grown up and mature,
I scraped through our youth
But it didnt hurt too much…

No longer boys , but men,
Now women-no longer girls,
Youth’s scars will heal fast,
It’s nobody’s fault;
Everybody is responsible
Everybody has goals in life.
All are relatively normal
But this is though so little.

I dont know -what’s in my dreams,
Which star shines over me,
When among those-familiar-faces,
I always keep looking for faces of children,
Why I keep peeking over the shoulder
Despite nobody calling-buddy!
Hoping someone wil tag and play with me,
Or at least hide and seek.

We grow our own stems,our own leaves,
We grow for each of us,
And of course roots
In exile,in the country,in a grave
Downwards,sideways,up, towards the sun…
To execution,to the right,to the left…
Who remembers though that in the end,
This is one and the same tree…
One and the same tree …