Passion of Ravensbrück

He steps out from the others.
He stands in the square silence.
The prison garb, the convict's skull
blink like a projection.

He is horribly alone.
His pores are visible.
Everything about him is so gigantic,
everything is so tiny.

And this is all.
                            The rest -
the rest was simply
that he forgot to cry out
before he collapsed.

János Pilinszky
Translated by Ted Hughes