How can you survive
Frozen
Grasping for air
With freedom so close and yet so far
How can you go on
Alone
Aware
Knowing that others are free
But they are not you
How can you live
Afraid
Hidden from the world
As the wind howls and curses your name
How can you make it
Knowing your days are numbered
Counting down until the day they come for you
Because you are different
Because you are not like me
How do you survive
Struggling
Clawing for breath
Hiding your life and all that it meant
Because they are afraid
How do you go on
Watching
Listening to the voices of those who are free
Dreaming, imagining
But they won't let you have it
For you are not like them
How do you live
Seeing death
Seeing pain and suffering
As you remember me
On the other side of the fence
How do you make it
On a dream
On a memory of flight
But your wings have been clipped
And you can no longer soar
Because they do not let you
How do you see me
Winged
Aloof, soaring above the clouds
And say
After all these years
"One day, that will be me"
Is there something I don't know
Innocent
Untouched
As you continue to survive
And I thrive
Because I am one of them
Is there a green shoot in the rock
A light in a starless sky
A hope
A Promise
Is there anything for you
In a world of steel and stone
That gives you what it takes to make it
To survive
In honor of the six million Jews who were killed during the Holocaust.
YOU ARE READING
A Book of Verse
PoetryVerses, poetry, songs and parodies that I have written. Here and there, there will also be inspirational quotes. Some I will invent, for others I will give credit to the author.
