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Holocaust Poetry

THE
Beginning, middle and end.

The beginning, filled with
Love and kindness,
People’s hearts filled with love.
The world, oh, the
            World, what a nice place
To be.  

The middle, different from the
First, hate and meanness covering
The world.
Friendship being
Blown away from the wind
Oh the world, the world, what
A miserable place to be.

You will never, ever 
believe me
You get taken, taken away
From family members and
Friends
                        To a miserable place
Saying good-bye
                        Last words
            Believe me it’s true.

  Oh, the end, flying in my head
                        Like the first leaf in fall.
Falling slowly very slowly
With a soft thud
The beginning, the middle
And the end.
Then, in your brain
You ask yourself
Is it all true?

Anzhelika

 

Broken Glass

  Glittering by the moon’s
                         Light

  Lay little pieces of glass
                        Millions!
                        Billions!  
                        Trillions!
            And more, more, more,
HATE comes close
            Closer and closer
 
I wish
            You wish
                        We wish
 
For it to stop but
            KNOW
            Wishes don’t
Always come true
            People believe that
Things will get better but
            KNOW
Only after several years!
            In the ghetto,
            The gross and lonely ghetto,
Getting only pieces of black bread and a
            Tiny cup
Of water
Or soup made of sand
Glittering, glittering under the moon’s light
Lay the little pieces of glass.

Anzhelika   

 

Water

Gliding
Flying
            Around in my head
                                    Water
                                    Water
 
Oceans, Rivers, Lakes and Streams
                                                Waterfalls
                                    Full of Water
But there’s
                                    None
                        Of water in the ghetto
                        You listen and
                        What do you
                                                Hear
                                    Where’s water?
                                                Water
 
Water is wasted in our times
                                    But several
                                                Several
                                    Years ago
                                                In
                                    The ghetto
                        You had to wait
                                                And wait
                                    To get
            A drop of
                                                Water
                                                Water
                                                Water
            Flying around in my head.

  Anzhelika

  Help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help

There in the
Ghetto  the
Dark cold
Ghetto  

People call it
Home
But I
Would
Never
Never
Ever
Would I
Say a thing       

  Ghetto, the old ghetto
Would never
Be my home

Help help

My one
The only wish
Would ever
Be
 
To get out of this
Dark scary
And
Lonely place.
 
Anzhelika        

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