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 Apr 2014 TM Wood
RA
Just as I am thinking
how disgustingly easy it is
for us to walk through, out
of the fence, something
pulls me back. My flag,
caught on barbed wire.
Majdanek, Poland
Wednesday, March 19, 2014
1:13 PM

From my collection, Poems from Poland
 Apr 2014 TM Wood
RA
(17)
 Apr 2014 TM Wood
RA
A mountain
of dead, and I
am not crying, it’s just
a bit of ash that flew
and found its way into
my eye.
Majdanek, Poland
Wednesday, March 19, 2014
2:26 PM

From my collection, Poems from Poland
 Apr 2014 TM Wood
RA
(18)
 Apr 2014 TM Wood
RA
You brought forward
all of your gold
all of your jewels
all of your shoes
all of your hope
and you received
a stone. Years later
I stand, free, looking
at a piece of nothing
you received in return
for everything.
Belźec, Poland
Thursday, March 20, 2014
2:49 PM

From my collection, Poems from Poland
 Apr 2014 TM Wood
RA
Half a million walked in this gate
and vanished.
Half a million walked down this path
and were buried in mass graves.
Half a million were here
and this place is forgotten
because half a million died.
What right do I have
to walk in
and walk out?
Belźec, Poland
Thursday, March 20, 2014
2:58 PM

From my collection, Poems from Poland
 Apr 2014 TM Wood
RA
And though we are
six feet under,
the sun shines
and music plays.
“Yea though I walk
through the valley of death
I will not fear,
for you are with me.”
And yea as I walk
through these places of death
I have to ask-
were you with them?
Belźec, Poland
Thursday, March 20, 2014
3:10 PM

From my collection, Poems from Poland

NOTE: This may not be the traditional translation of the Bible, as I translated directly from the original Hebrew.
 Apr 2014 TM Wood
RA
(24)
 Apr 2014 TM Wood
RA
A field of stones-
impassive
grey.
If I did not know
what they hide-
thirty three mass graves-
I would not think
to be horrified.
Belźec, Poland
Thursday, March 20, 2014
3:53 PM

From my collection, Poems from Poland
 Apr 2014 TM Wood
RA
(25)
 Apr 2014 TM Wood
RA
When all but a few
are here
alive
for only twenty minutes

And those who are here
longer are
killed
after only a few months

How could you ask why
no Jew
human
tried to fight back?
Belźec, Poland
Thursday, March 20, 2014
3:58 PM

From my collection, Poems from Poland
 Apr 2014 TM Wood
RA
Today is so beautiful.
Today is so beautiful in the forest.
Today is so beautiful in the forest with the blue sky and the golden leaves.
Today is so beautiful in the forest with the blue sky and the golden leaves and the ten thousand buried in mass graves.
How.
Zbylitowska Góra, Poland
Friday, March 21, 2014
11:27 AM

From my collection, Poems from Poland
 Apr 2014 TM Wood
RA
Silently, we sit
in a circle, reading
our letters. And they

my classmates, my
temporary family, absorb words
I will never see, and
shake quietly, weeping. You

sent me a letter, too
and you tell me you love me,
underlined twice and adorned
with an exclamation point. You

tell me you love me, and
stand tall, seemingly
above me, not seeing
how I have grown long ago
out of your shadow. You

say you love me, and this
is a gunshot, but I
have put a silencer
in your rifle. In order to cry
you still have to care.
LAHG

Zbylitowska Góra, Poland
Friday, March 21, 2014
11:30 AM

From my collection, Poems from Poland
 Apr 2014 TM Wood
Dianna
I feel
as if I am
a broken doll
in need of

repair and parts
Waiting for someone
to wind me up

Look at the many stitches
of my body
that keeps me together

Am I not Beautiful ?

My parched lips
Acheing
Each time I try to
smile

just look at my rib cage
and boney arms

That reach for you
And my starving heart

this empty hole
in my chest
I keep covered 

That craves
freedom

Will you fix me ?
Or at least
Try To

Help me

Do I mean anything
to you ?
At all Or am I

Simply just
entertainment

That's right
now that my music
has stop playing 

you toss me
back in to the box 
Along
with the other
forgotten toys 

That have been
long gone

Where my loneliness
plagues me 

And I sit in tears
Numb

With these
shadows 
hanging over me

watching
Pointing
&
Laughing

Until you decide
to take me out
again
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