Completed on 17 July 1971, Zygmunt Mycielski’s song was written to Czesław Miłosz’s 1969 poem “So little” (published in Kultura in June 1971 in the column “Written early morning” – hence the title of the song). Unfulfilment, resentment, protest against the passage of time –  these themes, present in Miłosz’s oeuvre, were close to Mycielski. Often he would note, disappointed, in his diaries: “too late”, “not a good time”, “I’d like to finish/write this”... 

The composition consists of three sections: the outermost ones provide a kind of discreet, subtle commentary, while the dramatic middle section, which reveals the reasons behind the lyrical subject’s apathy, brings expressive, agogic and sonic contrast (sharper rhythm, dynamic variety, more complex texture).