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OSKAR and his LETTER
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This is a true story told to me by a client I used to care for, he showed me the unopened letter, with the words 'deceased return to sender' written across it. He died at the age of 99 years.

He was a bright young man

of ninety eight years

telling me things

about his life,

how he had been

a teenager in Aushzicht

escaped tice

in fear of his life.

He knew all the details

the dates and the time

when he last saw

when he last saw his kith and kin.

Then he told me of a sad tale

a girl he met

fell in love

before the Nazi hell.

It was four years past

that he last saw her

now escaped

he headed for the border,

then there she was

on a railway station

standing on another platform

a train came in

blocked his view

he ran to see her

but it was not so,

he saw her look at him

she cried aloud

but the train she was on

was another direction bound.

He had not money

just a one way ticket

and now there it was

his train would not wait.

He headed for France

then the Bitish Isles

but never forgot

his girlfriends eyes.

Sixty years later

he finally found her

but she never read

the letter he sent her.

She passed away

two days before

the letter was returned

never opened anymore.


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