पावेल फ्रीडमैन

पावेल फ्रीडमैन (जनवरी 7, 1921 – सितम्बर 29, 1944) एक यहूदी कवि थे, जिन्हे उनकी कविता "द बटरफ्लाई" के लिए ख्याति मिली।

द बटरफ्लाई

The Butterfly

The last, the very last,

So richly, brightly, dazzlingly yellow.

Perhaps if the sun's tears would sing

against a white stone. . . .

Such, such a yellow

Is carried lightly 'way up high.

It went away I'm sure because it wished to

kiss the world good-bye.

For seven weeks I've lived in here,

Penned up inside this ghetto.

But I have found what I love here.

The dandelions call to me

And the white chestnut branches in the court.

Only I never saw another butterfly.

That butterfly was the last one.

Butterflies don't live in here,

in the ghetto.