Breathwing

(For Sophie Scholl)

Scared and full of rain
you are pushed 
to the final room

Yet you are
forever the breathwing
the light over Munich.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2014

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Dietrich Avatar
August 14, 2014 at 12:22 AM
gosh, I need to know her story. I just googled and saw that she was in a resistance movement in Germany. Good on her!!! Good poem too.
Philibert Avatar
November 18, 2014 at 10:01 AM
She was fantastic, a young girl who lost her life fighting for freedom.
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