Hard Lines ( the Final Solution ) Forgotten
( In recent days The Pope likened the Gaza Strip to a Concentration Camp. )
Hard Lines ( The Final Solution ) Forgotten
5 million 933 thousand 900 hundred Jewish people
The Holocaust
Of Buchenwald, Dachau, Auschwitz, Dzierzazna and Litzmannstadt
So many names
Of places of horror
And horror filled faces
The world still whispers with
These sickening memories
Of emaciated bodies
Piled in gas chamber graves
Survivors still carry their tattooed numbers
But so few of them now
Left that remember
The persecution camps
Now the children of these dead
Unleash their own bedlam
A new horror of death and blood
A new Pogrom
A new horror for screaming children
To witness
The suffering of
5 million 993 thousand 900 hundred people
Forgotten
In the wake of Israel’s expansionism
Killing and death
Has become common to them
5 million 993 thousand 900 hundred dead Jewish people
Wanted life
Wished they could live
Loved their lives
Their husbands, their daughters, their sons, their wives
And only desired peace
Concentration camp Gaza
Belittles the sacrifice of so many ruined lives
And adds to the stain of the murdered
The numbers of the innocent
And for pity’s sake the world mourned the fallen of Israel
But now
What conscience is there
What respect or care
Is there
For the 5 million 993 thousand 900 hundred
The Star of David
Has become nothing more than a Swastika
To the Palestinians of Gaza
Shame on you Israel
Shame on you
Copyright © Colin Mitchell Williams | Year Posted 2009
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