OUR DREAM

Germans came and took us away,

All crowded together, we were gone in a day.

So many families were torn apart,

Children from mothers, bodies piled in a cart.

Have you no mercy, the old woman sighed.

All are the same in God’s eyes, they cried.

Murder and pain, sadness and shame,

Believing yourselves to be better.

Everyone gone, but our story lives on,

Remembered in cards, words and letters.

Some of us lived to tell the tale,

Death and destruction, a mad dream that failed.

Even now, we are filled with dread,

So many people ended up dead.

Taken away from all that they knew,

Railroaded to Auschwitz because they were Jews.

Our memory lives on, but the horror is real,

You destroyed a people, but no guilt you feel.

Justice can never fully be done,

Evil stood behind the trigger of a Nazi gun.

When the bullets rang out, we did not all fall,

So, our dream lives on, in spite of it all.                           

Jasmine

Blairgowrie High School S3