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Treblinka
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Treblinka |
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kanashe Member
since 2008-05-21
Posts 59america 
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(I wrote this about eight years ago and I just edited it) Thicker than blood Cold as ice Hot as the blazing sun Night You know your fate As dark as the sky without light Don't fight it Stumble, don’t fall You've suffered enough It will all be over soon Lifeless bodies litter the dry dirt Bones barely covered in thin, pale membranes A grotesque sight of what they once were Comatose eyes turned toward the heavens Don’t step on your mother Watch out for your sister A head here A leg there Masses of limbs and dull dead eyes Frozen forever in time Piled high to the sky Indistinguishable faces lay bare Lost cases Identical races Hold on a while longer Hang on to what’s left of your worthless life Just like they've trained you Just like they’ve maimed you Clutch on to something Anything you can find Smoke in the air Burns soft pink lungs Putrid aromas taint the atmosphere Damaging an already beaten spirit With a grave heart And a heavy march Crawl to the beautiful end Death waits, sweet and blissful Hope lights up topaz eyes Seeing high razored gates A symbol of liberation long past due Too far out of sight to taste Shoved by monsters in death uniforms No longer human emptied of emotions and of their souls Cold air pierces flesh, angrily; defiantly Stare into the blue eyes of stone faced creatures and forgive Look away from the death scythes in their guilty hands Stand straight with broken pride Unyielding confidence Icy metal against a beaten broken back Don’t let them get the better of you Make them feel guilt Don’t try to hide Don’t try to run Curse them Stare at them with insane in your eyes insane in your mind And simply close your eyes |
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JerryPat2 Member Laureate
since 2011-02-06
Posts 16975South Louisiana |
Grotesque and ugly is this poem. Far from turning me off it galvanized me into reading between the lines, noting of course, the title, Treblinka. Nothing you could write, or myself as far as that goes could tell the reader what it was like in that damned place. You came close, and I might too, but even photos, as awful as they are can never deal with the reality of that awful place . . . ~*~ If they give you lined paper, write sideways. ~*~ |
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Ethern Member
since 2010-07-01
Posts 150on a plane |
definitely feelin this one |
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kanashe Member
since 2008-05-21
Posts 59america |
Thank you very much for your responses. It's true that unless you've experienced the horrors of a genocide you can never really understand it. The holocaust for me has always been something I think everyone should write about, its an ugly truth and shows the darkest sides of the human mind. It was a senseless thing full of murder and hate, we can learn from things like this, and never repeat them but It's just a shame it had to happen at all. |
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JamesMichael Member Empyrean
since 1999-11-16
Posts 33336Kapolei, Hawaii, USA |
Fine writing...James |
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