Shalom

I am aware how depressing this is but I was thinking about the holocaust. And then I felt impressed to write about it and it ended up rhyming. And then I felt proud to be an American.

Like an ocean wave, violent and untamed

Brothers, sisters, fathers and mothers

wearing numbers as names

taking one life for another

Where is the cause, where is the reason?

Soldiers, leaders, neighbors and friends

All in favor for a collective treason

Will there be justice, that will make amends?

Will there be a second chance?

Tommy, Sara, Bobby and Beth

have little air and zero stance

Like a wilting flower taking its last breath

A young boy lifts his head

"The Americans have come!"

"At last there will be no more dead"

Shalom, Shalom, Shalom, Shalom.