A Poem Dedicated to the Memory of the
Holocaust
by NDFA
A few years past 5 decades ago across the
Atlantic Sea,
Injustice of great proportion was abroad in
Germany,
People were withstanding torture and being brutally mauled
Their cries were cries of anguish, in hopelessness they called,
The ragged, weary
victims continued their desperate cry,
Until their calls were answered but after many souls had died,
The allies had come to free them, but they were too little and too late,
For many millions of people had suffered a tragic fate,
And so history repeated upon that mournful day,
Many deaths could have been prevented but society turned away,
It happened in the 15th century with
Inquisition of Spain,
Society knew what was happening yet let many people be slain,
It happened in the 19th century in the
United States,
Indians were hunted by settlers with cruel and
merciless hate,
Society could have done something then, but again they looked away,
And it is something that the U.S. regrets to this very day,
Around the very same time in the United States again,
African Americans were in slavery with their
freedom gone from them,
After years of wrongful suffering
society finally heard their plea,
And when society freed them they were still only partially free,
It took them long hard work to finally obtain their
rights,
And though their rights are
equal they haven’t completely won their fight,
And so you see how it is human nature to turn their backs on those in need,
Even in the present society looks away from heinous deeds,
There’s genocide in
Bosnia, and warfare in the Middle East,
Ireland is torn apart and Indonesia knows no peace,
There are riots in
Jakarta and in Ethiopia there’s war,
Who knows what other conflicts that history has in store,
But we can stop the conflict, we can stop the hate,
We can end this needless suffering before it is too late,
If society can open up and hear the call of those in need,
If we can put aside their fear and throw away our greed,
If we can free the suffering and set the world on the right way,
Then we would rid the
world of suffering upon that very
day.