This poem is inspired by a heart-wrenching--but incredible story that I read on the MSN website.
stuck in a cellar
frozen in time
getting older
the scars seething with panic
eyes now sensitive to light
an albino condition--
disturbing, not right
a 10 year old morphed into
an 18 year old body
only identity symbolized by a surgical scar
held hostage...Austria...
echoeing a former kidnapping:
NAZIS holding Austria at gunpoint--
punishment not cooperating...
not conceding to the propaganda...
Emblazoned By A Swastika
a madman murders himself--throwing his body
in front of a train
reeking of guilt...
reminiscent of Anna Karenina--
but Anna did not keep a terrorized girl hostage:
the only thing she kept in captivity was her passionate heart...
locked away in her secrets...her silence...
Whereas the forced silence in Natascha's case is criminal--
reality wreaks havoc with a concerned reader's mind--
atrocities that take place in the world...
children being snatched right off the sidewalk on the way
to school...
What a sad place this earth can be...
I know that God cries, his feelings overflowing in tears
Violence Against The Innocent--
When Will It Ever End?
At least this young girl fought her way to freedom...a lucky one
that will get to live the rest of her life:
instead of her parents saying good-bye to her prematurely,
tragically,
her remains in a casket, or an urn, her potential for life kept
quietly in a mausoleum.
Poetry by Alison Clarke
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Written on 2006-08-25 at 01:30
Tags Austria Kidnapping Freedom
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Atrocity In Austria
stuck in a cellar
frozen in time
getting older
the scars seething with panic
eyes now sensitive to light
an albino condition--
disturbing, not right
a 10 year old morphed into
an 18 year old body
only identity symbolized by a surgical scar
held hostage...Austria...
echoeing a former kidnapping:
NAZIS holding Austria at gunpoint--
punishment not cooperating...
not conceding to the propaganda...
Emblazoned By A Swastika
a madman murders himself--throwing his body
in front of a train
reeking of guilt...
reminiscent of Anna Karenina--
but Anna did not keep a terrorized girl hostage:
the only thing she kept in captivity was her passionate heart...
locked away in her secrets...her silence...
Whereas the forced silence in Natascha's case is criminal--
reality wreaks havoc with a concerned reader's mind--
atrocities that take place in the world...
children being snatched right off the sidewalk on the way
to school...
What a sad place this earth can be...
I know that God cries, his feelings overflowing in tears
Violence Against The Innocent--
When Will It Ever End?
At least this young girl fought her way to freedom...a lucky one
that will get to live the rest of her life:
instead of her parents saying good-bye to her prematurely,
tragically,
her remains in a casket, or an urn, her potential for life kept
quietly in a mausoleum.
Poetry by Alison Clarke
Read 816 times
Written on 2006-08-25 at 01:30
Tags Austria Kidnapping Freedom
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