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A Withered Flower
April 30, 2015
April's breeze blows in changing times
From which blooms a spree of unheard hateful crimes
Born in Romania, once a peaceful place
Now moved into the ghetto, for a discriminative race
A long life that was happy and free
Now crushed under the hand of Germany
Silenced behind the pricks and thorns of wire
Where death and time begin to conspire
Soon moved to a place one won't notice
Eight thousand lives were then deemed hopeless
A withered May flower meets its fate
Suffocated by the wrath of hate
© Chris C., Pequannock, NJ
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This article has 2 comments.
poet6574839 said...
on May. 6 2015 at 3:33 pm
true, sad, and beautiful
readingwriting said...
on May. 5 2015 at 1:17 pm
I love how you used deep meaning behind April and May coming with changing times, and as you say, a withered flower.
An elegy about a holocaust victim, Chava Lea Deutsch, who endured the sufferings of Jewish life after the German takeover. Within two months, she was moved from her home into a ghetto then transported to Auschwitz where her and her family was gassed.