The Holocaust:  A Poem of Remembrance

Remember.org

Listen to the poem. The Holocaust: A Poem of Remembrance, by Tamara Beryl Latham Skeletal frames, whose beaten hearts once bore, the heft of Hitler’s war, who knelt en masse, in silence quaked with stifled groans beneath the veil of death. Through reddened tear-stained eyes they prayed in vain, for meager crumbs of hardened moldy […]

The post The Holocaust:  A Poem of Remembrance appeared first on The Holocaust History - A People's and Survivor History - Remember.org.

Remember.org

Listen to the poem.

The Holocaust: A Poem of Remembrance,

by Tamara Beryl Latham

Skeletal frames,

whose beaten hearts

once bore,

the heft of Hitler’s war,

who knelt en masse,

in silence quaked

with stifled groans

beneath the veil of death.

Through reddened

tear-stained eyes

they prayed in vain,

for meager crumbs

of hardened

moldy bread.

While Kristallnacht fueled

raging fires

that burned old memories

and future dreams.

Death trains droned,

broken bones were stacked,

as clinking gold

removed from teeth

shattered the serenity of night.

Yet, through the horror

of sacrificial lambs,

an image loomed

within a vapor cloud:

Rachel weeping drops of blood,

‘My children are no more.’

And what remained

were piles of sable ash,

unmarked by granite stones,

that filled the earthen pits.

Yet, I still weep

for what was flesh

reduced to bone and cinder –

for those with silent tongues

who turned away.

If tears were oceans

mine have formed them all.

The post The Holocaust:  A Poem of Remembrance appeared first on The Holocaust History - A People's and Survivor History - Remember.org.