Not Forgotten

Hopes plummet, as does the Ash
like snow, but not

it falls from the chimney
of the hell they have entered.

Welcome.Goodbye.

A lie. "Arbeit macht frei"

The only shower is the ash outside,
generations falling slowly to the ground.
The descent, not into Hell but up into history.
The slaughter, the pain will not be forgotten.

God? Yahweh? Jehovah? Where is he?

The Chosen are subject to
manic lunacy, carried out with efficiency.
Nazi bureaucracy means no questions are asked,
and euphemism hides the terror, but not for long.

Adolf's war has gone wrong,
and Liberation will mean
ignorance can last no longer
than the rope soon to hang
around the murderer's necks.

Yet years after the doubt remains.
Where was the concern
for the Jews
and the other "undesirables"
who didn't have David on their side.
Where was the concern in 1933 and 1939?

And now, as the histories are written,
another matter of anti-Semitism
brings history into the present

Would the concern - justified yes - be so great
if they hadn't been white?