Holocaust

Unrecognizable breathing carcasses March to the graceful beat of death A welcomed sentence to their Savagely tortured bodies And extinguished spirits Unjustly slaughtered by lunatic men Self-created superiority based on Flawed, foolish beliefs Manically smug smiles grotesquely displayed As they watch the skeletal scum Forcibly assembled for Gaseous cleansing Violently chaotic stampeding unfolds Blood chilling screams forever echoing Through the chambers of hellish horrors Until Massacred silence Martyred smoke clouds the sky Fast fading in sight But eternally haunting

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Line Gauthier

Date: 2/11/2021 2:56:00 PM

Simply horrific. Glad to find your powerful tribute published in the 2020 PS Anthology, Amy~

Poet Destroyer A

Date: 5/21/2011 8:36:00 AM

hello, Amy! how are you? a very outstanding poem,, deep within the soul.. a very tragic way of life... and the smoke will never rest .. this old terrible ordeal.. thanks for sharing,..p.d.

Madeleine Mclaughlin

Date: 4/29/2011 11:59:00 AM

I like the way you hit the emotion right on the nose and also your assessment of the people who would do something like this.