Meshugge for my Mashiach

Never Again

*
His face does not yet wear
the mask of pained, stony indifference.
The clink of guns on barbed wire,
the crude jokes of the Fuhrer's men
who take up post at the guard-tower
have not left upon his young brow
the deep furrows of a bitter heart.
As he peers out from the wall,
a lone tear rolls down his cheek
to the yellow, six-sided star
sewn onto his shirt by the cold hands
of Rachael weeping for her children.

His eyes, in a silent plea,
looks past the gray clouds,
searching the horizon
for a glimpse of sunrise.

"Lama sabachthani?"

~ Ada Ezeokoli, 2005
From the painting "Why?" by Joel Hohmann, March 2005
In Remembrance of the Holocaust


Let us not forget history's lessons,
lest we repeat its mistakes.

posted by Handmaiden @ 12:24 pm