ok so we had to write poems about the holocaust for english, so here is my first poem.

Memories Haunt

Never will I forget the day,

When my innocence died,

Why it happened I can not say,

But believe me I have tried.

These human lives were thrown away,

Consumed by these flames,

After this I could not pray,

Haunted by their exclaims.

I watched the hungry slowly die,

I heard the tortured scream,

To save myself I told a lie,

And settled to regime.

I watched my father escape me,

And die bit by bit,

I did too, to a degree,

And withered with each hit.

With little sleep I used to dream,

Of a life with no bell,

Where I would not have to scheme,
Just to leave this hell.

To this day I can recall,

My infernal nightmare,

How close I came to death’s call,

The boy I left right there.

-Lauren Browne