In celebration of National Poetry Month we are posting a poem a day. Today’s poem was submitted by Annie Davis who notes, “The anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp is observed as Yom Ha’Shoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day. The Hebrew word shoah means catastrophe. This year, Holocaust Remembrance Day is observed beginning at sunset of Wednesday, April 15th and continues through Thursday, April 16th.” If you have a favorite poem (or two) send it along to frank@mytownmatters.com.
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.