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~ Surviving Hell on Earth ~
      (The Nazi's Camps)


They had seen Hell on Earth
  Lived through it, survived
Tight-lipped through all the horror
  Never succumbing to bitterness or sorrow

Seen babies thrown in the air and shot dead with rifles
  In front of their thunderstruck, disbelieving mothers
Seen dogs rip the flesh off of tender girls and boys
  Vultures and crows clean up with their cackling noise

Witnessed gang-rapes of tender teen-agers
  Radiation experiments on their private parts
Their eyes plucked out of their heads screaming
  Gasoline fires consuming their bodies and hearts

And then, most awful of all, the crematoria
  Hundreds daily taking 'showers' of poisonous gas
The stench of their decaying bodies piling up in smoking ruins
  While the Third Reich sang and danced to Hitler's tune...

At the end, human skeletons marching weeks on end in rags
  Through unforgiving Polish forests in winter storms
Shot through the head should they tarry or stumble
  Writhing as their saintly parents died in their arms

This couple, this pair, survived, and they married
  Made a new home in the State of Israel
Where Iranian jackals still howl at them daily
  Warning them of plutonium and nuclear bombs

Tight-lipped they were and tight-lipped they remain
  Building a home, bearing children, carrying on
Burying the pain in the past, they neither pout nor complain
  No time to waste on vengeance, life's too soon gone

Two Jewish heroes re-embraced life, made the most of peacetime
Teaching the world ~ even unthinkable horrors can be overcome with time

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