So Europe Took Their Human Ash Within

In Bedzin and in Krakow they breathed in What they denied in conscious thought or word. The ashes of the Jews, the shades of skin Penetrating lungs so deep within The dead unburied mixed, in air secured In Bedzin and in Krakow, mortal sin. The nearby people turned to burial urns. The human dust by breathing was allured The ashes of the Jews, the shades of skin. So Europe took their human ash within. A graveyard we became unknown, impure. In Bedzin and in Krakow, more of sin. And who they thought destroyed lived on in them Controlled their lungs, their hearts their minds uncured, The ashes of the Jews, borne in their skin. Like a mass communion without words We ate and breathed the Jews, the gays, unheard In Bedzin and in Krakow we walked in The ashes of the lost, the glades of skin,