Present, past, and future…

the season is now to reflect and remember,

Here in a former sickening place of human horror and atrocity,

The likeness of such that should not be repeated,

Yet it is in places named Dafur, Sudan…

It’s only a slogan and metal sign--- leading to self sacrifice in the form of exhaustive labor,

To know it is false hope for survival,

For human beasts sickly bent on racial destruction,

A declaration and inscription,

ordered by the SS then,

But surprisingly copied by others today,

To torment or make a statement,

Insult to the forced labor,

Barbed wire and twisted metal,

Loaded with death and sickness,

The cries of pain echoing through the trees,

Stone covered Main Street

for endless roll calls---

it could have been a call to death or life for another day.

Human experiments and finishing touches,

No mercy, no joy, far away from love

Thousands in silence,

From many nations, pulled in secrecy

kept from a world and view,

but everyone knew,

Yet did nothing and turned the other cheek…

Survivors will tell to get right with God,

Strive and apply to survive daily and finish,

To grasp a minute of surviving breath and life,

Victor Frankl found meaning in all forms of existence,

to find reason for continued living.

to say yes to life even in death.

“…Plus Jamais…Nie Wieder…” a wall of steel writes---

to tell us today “…never again, never again…”

 

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