Wednesday, April 11, 2018

In The Quiet



In The Quiet
Holocaust Remembrance Day April 11/12 2018

When the sirens sound the air becomes heavy
I feel the weight of the millions of souls we carry
This begins their Day, lives destroyed
The realization of evil from hatred passed

I’m not my brother’s keeper but I must remember
Lessons from history is in the abstract memory
For concretes are simple and confuse intellectually
The abstract is self-reliance and protection of the future

Could they dream in their loneliest hours?
When civilization abandoned them, to enter the gas chambers
That one day they’d be held honorably in Jerusalem
In The Land of their forefathers, and we’d say Amen!

I see her picture and she imagined she’d be loved
Instead she’d never even get to be kissed
She thought at twelve about that party dress
In deathly rags she exists, but the determination is “Never Again!”

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