Ashes

A nightmare

But no sleep brought this forth

Human actions

Hate

Misguided honour

 

Death walks in tattered clothing

Skin and bone

Hollow

Hopeless

 

Encaged, imprisoned, inflicted

Decaying souls

The long gone and the barely there

 

No crime

No guilt

Just blood, faith

 

Different, therefore wrong

Man

Woman

Child

 

Millions

 

MILLIONS

 

Gone

Stolen

Tortured

Treated less than the lowest of animals

 

Ashes

Smoke

Death

 

Auschwitz

Treblinka

Sobibór

Just 3 of the many names burned into the flesh of humanity

 

Never again

A lesson learned

 

No

Still it happens

Still death walks in frail faces and hungry eyes

 

Men

Women

Children

 

Born with the wrong name

Heart pumping the wrong blood

Praying to the wrong sky

 

Only hate is wrong

Only predjudice

Only taking a life because it follows a path different from yours

 

This deep dark scar

This open wound

Will never heal

 

But we will remember

And we will speak for the voiceless

You will  not be lost

You will never be forgotten

 

Your lives

Your deaths

Mattered