I had to reach the border,

I had to forsake the Nazi order.

So much rubble homes couldn’t take anymore,

Window frames clatter as another bomb tore.

I didn’t want to end up dead for a crime,

Stealing claret while SS Officers dine.

Scrambling over corpus and boulders,

Gravel whitened my weakened shoulder.

Animals scurried away as I pad,

I wish the Germans would I thought sad.

All my friends now dead relations,

They called it cleansing for the Jewish population.

I saw it as death’s declaration,

Covered up by an evil nation.

My life was always circumstantial,

Forever on the run always financial.

I had family even Aunts,

All in prison camps others in France.

The evil Swastika hew,

Black-White death pendants everybody new.

Arian race pure adoring,

Hitler’s speeches cold official words outpouring.

Mesmerizing eyes that bored his song,

Printing images they saw no wrong.

I continue to dream as furnace smoke plumes,

Will I ever reach the border as more barbed wire looms?