Surviving Hell On Earth

~ Surviving Hell on Earth ~ (The Nazi's Camps) They had seen Hell on Earth Lived through it, survived Tight-lipped through all the horror Never succumbing to bitterness or sorrow Seen babies thrown in the air and shot dead with rifles In front of their thunderstruck, disbelieving mothers Seen dogs rip the flesh off of tender girls and boys Vultures and crows clean up with their cackling noise Witnessed gang-rapes of tender teen-agers Radiation experiments on their private parts Their eyes plucked out of their heads screaming Gasoline fires consuming their bodies and hearts And then, most awful of all, the crematoria Hundreds daily taking 'showers' of poisonous gas The stench of their decaying bodies piling up in smoking ruins While the Third Reich sang and danced to Hitler's tune... At the end, human skeletons marching weeks on end in rags Through unforgiving Polish forests in winter storms Shot through the head should they tarry or stumble Writhing as their saintly parents died in their arms This couple, this pair, survived, and they married Made a new home in the State of Israel Where Iranian jackals still howl at them daily Warning them of plutonium and nuclear bombs Tight-lipped they were and tight-lipped they remain Building a home, bearing children, carrying on Burying the pain in the past, they neither pout nor complain No time to waste on vengeance, life's too soon gone Two Jewish heroes re-embraced life, made the most of peacetime Teaching the world ~ even unthinkable horrors can be overcome with time