With Fast Closing Eyes Fading Into Eternity
A Holocaust Remembrance Poem
Some say It didn’t happen
But old eyes
Tell another story
The eyes fast closing
Go back to A time of evil
And atrocity.
They wear the memories
Numbers tattooed forever
On aging skin
Branded like animals
Back then.
The young and the old
Those that survived
Always will remember
That place, that time.
Innocent lives
Shattered.
God’s chosen one’s
Murdered by the millions
But not only them
Anyone who didn’t
Fit a twisted ideal
Of a man who
Was really
More of a monster.
They lived through
Hell walking out
Bone thin
Starving skeletons
Humanity at it worst
And it’s best.
Some say it
Didn’t happen
But eyes fast
Closing Into eternity
Tell a different story?
Will we let the lies stand
Or will we let
Their stories Live on?
© Michelle R Kidwell
April.15.2018 revised April.16.2018
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Michelle Renee Kidwell
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