This is who I would have been
I could have been your next of kin
The world we could have painted bright
Had not I been caught and gassed that horrific night
Words For Those With No Voice For every pair of shoes All the burnt bones and woes In the millions, in the mud All died alone Starving of food and having lost our souls Our god abandoned us so Mother father Sister brother Fuel for the Reich, we lay slaughtered Some of us were saved By those whose honor made them brave We must salute them all, the bold and the dead Even if we have only skeletons to mark their stead Now that time has passed There will be contests, it will be a blast Who wins first? Who wins third? The holocaust deserves no prize Why must we die twice, this is absurd? Honor me with a prayer A poem A moment of silence A heart felt thought about humanity Prose and verse, to remember the atrocities This is the honor of men of a higher velocity Never make a circus of the horrific gas chambers A contest of who makes the horrors more real or titillating Its not you the writer or the reader that feels It’s us gassed and burned and buried with our id numbers Asleep in the fields in slumber Yellow stars fading away in silence, in tears No grave markers to shout out of atrocious fears The subtly of honor is lost on the crass Maybe it’s them who should be buried under this grass Notes: I realize this is a delicate issue, I wrote this poem only because is of my opinion, that having a contest on such issues unless for specific venues, causes, etc. is somewhat tasteless. There is no right or wrong, this is simply by view or take on things and thus have expressed so via this poem. A contest implies a prize or reward even be it praise, and so to profit from so many peoples suffering, well I have explained why. However that being said, any expression or illustration dedicated to honoring and bringing to the light such atrocities, is a different issue. That being said good intentions are just that, no matter how misguided they may be. We should be grateful we live where we are free to express our sentiments, feelings and beliefs, without fear of repercussion, and that by its very nature will mean many have diverse opinions and views on any issue.
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