Reponse

Holocaust

by Barbara Sonek

We played, we laughed
we were loved.
We were ripped from the arms of our
parents and thrown into the fire.
We were nothing more than children.
We had a future. We were going to be lawyers, rabbis, wives, teachers, mothers. We had dreams, then we had no hope. We were taken away in the dead of night like cattle in cars, no air to breathe smothering, crying, starving, dying. Separated from the world to be no more. From the ashes, hear our plea. This atrocity to mankind can not happen again. Remember us, 
for we were the children whose dreams and lives were stolen away.


My Response


We watched

We cried

And we felt your pain

We were made to accept this terrible fate

We watched as blood was spilt

And we couldn't do anything to help

As your dreams were taken away

Death was upon you like untimely frost 

But the loss that you have experienced has made our lives even better. For we can be teachers, lawyers and parents, and we can follow our dreams into the foreseeable future and for that we thank you

From the Ashes hear our sorrow

For We are the children of the modern day and we will remember you