Auschwitz

He never succeeded

Always right, left clout

Continually inadequate

While blows rain down.

I couldnt stand it,

Not anymore.

I had to give in

Letting them win some more.

Giving an inch, taking a mile

Leaving us helpless, once again.

Air raid sirens begin to wail

An alert to find refuge

In a shelter.

Its easy to escape during a warning.

They left their posts,

All currents dead

But orders to kill anyone outside their block.

An abandoned ship,

Not a soul on the path.

A feast for kings, abandoned.

A supreme temptation, a gift

But who would dare?

He would! He reached perceptively,

A suicide feast.

In the moment a bomb began to fall.

The man near the feast writhed on the floor

And we began to hear planes.

And almost at once

The camp began to shake.

I thought of my father

But glad all the same.

This, today, it was real.

We were not afraid

No longer afraid of death,

Or at least not of that death.

Every bomb explosion filled me with joy.

Gave us a confidence

We had not here.

But alas, if it could have lasted

Ten times as long.

The silence fell,

Planes gone on the wind.

The sirens begin to wail

The air raid is over

But we continually work.

Hundreds of dead

From a death like this

Couldnt have been what

Their survival was suppose to have been.