Man is there In the night Sitting and waiting to fight
No good thoughts Or good times Just making a plan for the next big crime
Dark and evil Not very nice They act as if you’re head lice
You have been found You hear a bullet **** by Prepare to die
For your friends and for your family Now they have come for you Just because you’re a Jew
The world is unfair These men are full of disdain You’ve seen them beat children with a cane
So many taken Full of hatred and sorrow You know there will be no tomorrow
The men are closing in You close your eyes And think about their network of spies
Why haven’t they been stopped? Is the world that uncaring? I see their eyes staring
Their ignorance is killing us As they watch their television Full of indecision
By the time help arrived It was too late All of us Jews had met our fate
Countries watched from afar With fear of standing out Consumed with self doubt
Once they realized what they had done They could wait no more The allied powers went to war
Millions killed The second world war Blood and gore
The world remembers The pain and death Of how many will not take another breath
Yet history repeats itself More wars are fought Bodies in the fields rot
Are we naturally good?
(Short pause)
I guess not.
For those of you that are going to tell me there was no television during that time period, it depends on the year of the war you're looking at. Televisions were created in the 40s apparently if I remember correctly. Also, I wasn't aware of this when I made the poem.
When I started writing this poem I originally planned a short maybe funny poem about something. It's interesting to see how poems can swing off to something you never expected. I really like how it turned out and I will be reading it to my group in my Creative Writing class.
Let me know what you guys think! For those of you who haven't read my poems lately, yes they do revolve around death it seems. I'm not sure why that is.