Rose Colored Glasses

Light, camera, action. Roll out the grass, clean up the streets -- everything must be pristine. Open shops, spread out! Food, clothes, soap. Get your fill, take a real shower -- you are staying a while. New clothes, no patches! Quiet, smile, play. Look like you’re happy, start a game of soccer --make this look good. Nobody can see, nobody can know! Hurry, guns, crying. Fill the cattle cars, no time for packing -- dying is your destiny, our deception is your legacy! This poem is in response to the hoax created by the Nazis in the Terezin ghetto.