Colin Mitchell Williams Poet Free verse

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

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Farah Chamma January 11, 2009 at 7:36 AM Yes ...It is a massive shame on Israel...The news is no longer humane...The weapons used are a production of insanity...Terrorism? I am Palestinian...only 14 years old...live many miles away from my country...yet feel all the rage, grief, and disgust towards what I see on the news...Thank you for sharing.. Farah

Steve Voorhees January 10, 2009 at 10:47 PM Im on the same page as you Colin, for sure. So sad to see that history makes no impact and misery no deturrent for hate and violence. Ugly viscious cirlcle. There is nothing more senseless and tragic than people who spill each others blood for God.

Raul Moreno January 10, 2009 at 8:03 PM Poignant poem Colin, I feel your compassion...Raul

Michael Torres January 9, 2009 at 3:35 PM Death is terrible. Innocent children dying women and men. I pray for peace on both sides war is terrible terrorist are also. I feel your passion Colin. The Hamas are sending missles over 300 from what I understand and Israel is killing innocent chidren. I pray for a solution to this madness. GBU and the ones you love Michael