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Hope

 

 

I wasn’t there 

And can’t imagine

The fear the death, the hopeless crowding

The sick the dying the poor the crying

The black abyss that swallowed all

The world aghast the smoke, the pall

 

Just writing this it makes me sick

At mankind’s filth, at mankind’s tricks.

 

No more, forever, we must avert

We must be vigilant we must be  alert

But slips unseen around the side 

The Reaper coaxes , creeps and rides

 

And now a handful memories strong

They speak to us but not for long

We must remember and not forget

Those poor poor souls marched to their death.

 

27/01/2022. 22:10- 22:38 

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Stephen Gospage

Sun 30th Jan 2022 17:32

A good, powerful poem, Pete.

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Pete (edbreathe)

Fri 28th Jan 2022 11:56

I agree, I couldn’t let it go unmarked

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M.C. Newberry

Fri 28th Jan 2022 00:05

Man's inhumanity to Man - the greatest crime against the history
of human kind down the ages, reaching its total abhorrent
apocalypse in the Second World War. Lest we forget indeed!
A terrible detached disciplined assault on everything our lives
are surely meant to be - inflicted by a nation that gave the world
Goethe and Beethoven.

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