Holocaust


The nazis came in their cages of iron
Demolished everything
Turned neighbours against each other
Made everything worse
The Jews had to run, hide, disappear
anything to get away from the deadly hand
of those that wanted to rule Europe

The Jews were hunted down like animals
and to the nazis they weren't even that
they were the gum under the nazis shoes
The dirt on the ground
a pain

Endlösung der Judenfrage
The final solution of the question about the Jews
They were all going to be killed
The men, children, women and the old
No one was supposed to survive

-

When the Germans came
the family of the two girls had decided
to send the girls out to the country side
Perhaps they would stand a better chance there
The city wasn't safe anymore

Hiding, quiet, nobody was supposed to see
To the naked eye there was nothing there
But this is when the neighbours turned on each other
Not even the French showed mercy
acting as the right hand of the devil himself
Someone sneaked on them
They were caught

What happened to them after this,
before they were forced onto trains
leading to their end,
is too terrible to even be put in writing
and I am sure that the paper would catch fire
If someone ever tried

Auswitch

Were they sent to the left or the right
Life, death, not sure, surreal

What must the girls have thought
when passing through the iron gate
at the top there were three words
Arbeit mach frei
They didn't know German
Did they know what it meant
And if they did
did they know it was a lie?

Did they survive a while
did they taste the mouldy bread
were they fed at all
Did they die of starvation
or was the gas chambers their fate
did their fingers mark the walls
did they feel the stench of those that died
and did they have to dig their own graves?

They did not survive

-
Why did someone want
to take away the cousins of my grandmother
the whole family
the whole religion
my people

And to those that doesn't believe in the holocaust
are your eyes shut?
Haven't you seen, haven't you heard?
How can you be so naive?

It did happen
and the proof I've got is
the death of the two beautiful girls
that were killed because of their religion
their "rase"
Because they were Jews
Because someone blamed them for all the evil in this world

I wonder how it would have been
if you were still here today
You were loved by so many
Two young girls, so innocent
They never hurt anyone
They never got a chance to live their lives

And I swear
I promise
from the bottom of my heart
I would lay flowers on your graves every day
If I only knew where they were
and if they only existed




Words by Natalie
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Written on 2006-08-15 at 00:39

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Eva
gave my goosebumps
it's a masterpiece!
well done!
i am a nazi-hater and pretty interested in holocaust
the shame of human race!
2008-11-13


Stan Cooper The PoetBay support member heart!
Natalie...you deserve much more than an applause for this
wonderful and sad poem....You have written things that must
not be forgotten, and wrote it beautifully...

xxxx Stan
2008-03-03


Teala
Wonderfully written--it is still hard to believe that in the scheme of things, this didn't happen to long ago.
2006-08-20


keith nunes
well said. the world needs reminding
2006-08-15


Rob Graber
A sad tale well told! One detail I noticed: After"the stories divide," I think you want "Most likely" rather than "Most lightly."
2006-08-15