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The loss of words (Dachau 2014)

June 5, 2014
By Chuck23 GOLD, Des Moines, Iowa
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I would like to say I can hear
The cries and the scream, but I can’t
I would like to say I know
The pain and the suffering faced but I can’t
I want to say I understand
What this destruction and wasteland meant but I don’t
I want to say I comprehend
What the grave underneath my feet held, but I don’t

I know that the path I walk
Once carried bodies as they lay with sulken faces
I know that the sounds I hear
Once were filled with the cries of a pained people with eyes lost.
I hear only now the shallow emptiness that reverberates
Now empty wall acts like a knife twisting in my gut.

© Samantha S., Oviedo, FL

The author's comments:
This poem is based of my experience of visiting Dachau Holocaust Memorial Museum and the feelings I felt walking through the camp.
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