I had a star, my own a mark of who I was,
but it wasn't like the ones in the heavens,
never shining bright.
It was on my arm a symbol of who,
what I was classed as.
They never thought I was anything.
I'd fell hard from the heavens,
and
now I was in hell..
My Mother & Father were
smiling at me as if nothing was wrong
as if this was a new normal,
even as we were separated.
They never cried, but smiled.
Taken to this room, there were a few
of them, I heard the screams,
saw the smoke billowing from
upon high.
But they just smiled, motioning
silently with their mouths.
" We Love You,
I never saw them after that,
young but not naive.
Hearing rumors before I'd
been taken from my home.
Even as we left, or shall I say relocated.
Intruders moving in, laughing as we were
taken from our ancestral home.
Generations had grown up moved on,
it was a home of a hundred smiles.
But now we were just shedding tears
as we were torn from our foundations
our home.
I see the children lying in the snow,
laid bare, bodies like the bare branches...
contorted silent.
But at least their tears are silent...
their pain evaporated like their last breath.
Not like the new arrivals, there's not much space,
Broken down to useful or not...
I saw a parent lead away screaming,
some even shot as the **** of their womb
is taken to the smoking house...
You hear tears, then the wails of why's...
then silence, a silence that makes you *****,
even though you haven't eaten in days,
you're sick to your stomach and cry dry tears...
Rest in peace, my friends....
I was exhausted, frail, and malnutrition
eating away at me.. I was lead away,
my friends just looked down as they
knew where I was going I was garbage
to abandoned and reduced to dust.
Hearing the wheels turn, I had laid bare
that this was time, others cried screamed
I just sat there.
Dying with pride, without giving them
the satisfaction of my tears.
As we started to burn,
explosions words unheard in a long time.
And the door swung open, melting silhouettes
ran then fell. I was lucky I was at the far end,
Lighty burnt I ran out naked and alone into the
arms of a serviceman who covered me with a
blanket.
His words still in my thoughts every day.
"Your safe now child,