Amy Sullivan Poet Free verse

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 February 11, 2021 at 2:56 PM Simply horrific. Glad to find your powerful tribute published in the 2020 PS Anthology, Amy~

Poet Destroyer A May 21, 2011 at 8:36 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 April 29, 2011 at 11:59 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.