The Unforgotten

The Holocaust :

So very many lives taken within a blink of an eye
haunting smell of death, in a dark smoke filled sky
homosexuals, Gypsies, Jews and many more
innocent children oblivious to what lay in store

Pain and torture growing from months to years
children watched their parents taken, through tears
crematoriums and gas chambers, oppressive smell
blood soaked sheets filled the air, as darkness, fell

To kill the 'inferior' beings, they proclaimed
for being born Jewish, inferior they were named
dysentery plagued the camps, prisoners grew weak
dying before their prearranged death, so to speak

Taken from the death lines at the Auschwitz camps
twins marked as research, with permanent tattoo stamps
a genetic scientist, hoping to produce a master race
barbaric experiments on those who held, an identical face

Performing murderous surgeries, and painful injections
on the children, Dr. Mengele carried out horrid dissections
spirits of their departed loved ones, came to them at night
through wretched conditions, the spirits gave them, will to fight

Author's note : I can't begin to tell the whole tragedy in a day, month or even year .
The pain torture and horror is far beyond anything imaginable .
It is incomprehensible how life truly was for the victims, survivors and families who lived part of their lives in concentration camps and watched daily the massive lines of people, some of their family members even , led to their deaths .
My heart aches at the thought of the pain and torture inflicted upon the men, women and children. And I can only pray that they have found peace within the arms of God .
A peace...... they so rightfully deserve .