Poems

Here are a collection of poems that I have writen.

Forever My Heart Lay

The autumn breeze blows

As I lay on my back

Bright peaceful blue sky above

Thinking about I will do when I grow up.

Hitler and his Nazis are no worry to my Jewish town yet,

Till the day father came home panicked,

Helping me, mother and my little sister May Bell into the cellar to hide.

How long we lived there will always be a mystery.

 Many winters came and went

One day Father left for food; he never retuned;

Mother followed; she never returned’

What was going on above ground?

May Bell was hungry;

My turn to try and help.

I don’t get scared easy and I’m never terrified;

I went above ground;

The whole town was distorted;

Returned with nothing, worried I may have been seen.

“it’s summer know,” says May Bell, “and we can play outside, right?”

Taking my 5- year- old sister’s hand, I breathe deeply.

That summer of1941 was her last…

And the first time I was truly terrified.

What became of her body is something I’ll never know.

Just like my parents.

My body was burned in a pile of other bodies

At a concentration camp;

There my heart forever

Though elsewhere lay my heart forever.

The autumn breeze blows as I lay on back

Bright peaceful blue sky above

Thinking about what I could’ve done

When I grew up.

 

GONE                    (this poem has been published)

The darkness that surronds me

The voices telling me to jump

Down down down

Gone

The shadows star at me

Till I do jump

Then I fall to a bitter-sweet darkness

Where I lay, still,

Dead

Gone

From the earth

Forever.

  

My Match

I am called into the ring

Cheering erupts,

I meet my match.

Black cloaked,

Flowing of is boney structure.

I turn to retreat

The gate has been closed.

I am trapped

With death.

Do I fight?

Or do I surrender to her cold drizzly world?

Either way, I am sure death always wins.

I am sure this is the end.

 

Broken Love

Broken love.

Cracked wedding rings.

Fallen promises.

Closets full

Of words unspoken.

Fading hope.

A heart drained out.

An empty sole

Alone in a field of

Broken love.

  

Just a Step        (this poem has also been published)            

Just a step away

To look through the eyes of another

To feel the emotions of another

To understand the feelings of another

Just a step away

From the world you live in

From the people you live with

From the joy you live for

Just a step away

Can take you to a life so very different from your own

Can take you to meet friends so different from your own

Can also take you to a world of sadness

So very different from your own

Just a step away

Come with me and fly

Come with me and live

Come with me and discover adventure

Or don’t come and for always wonder

What could have been?

If you had

Just stepped away

All of this would disappear

All of this could be destroyed

All of this shall be gone

After all it’s

Just a step away

 

Untitled

I want to cry out

No sound comes

I fall beneath the surfaces,

Death grips my feet,

Crawling up me.

I go num

Bottom, up.

My time clicks down.

I no longer want to cry out.

I am no longer in need of comfort.

My last thought,

Of the blank pages.

Unmarked.

Untouched.

I so young,

My feet hit bottom,

Death himself

Swallows me hole.

My last second,

It flashes before me.

My untitled book,

My untitled life.

 

Never Over

Quiet

Almost an unhealthy quite.

To calm,

I shift,

Pulling myself from under the bed.

Wait,

It’s not over.

I inch back to the beneath

The upstairs moans with the wind.

The inky darkness folds around my tender body.

The down stairs curses like a hurricane.

It’s freighting screeches,

Push their way into my ears.

A glass shatters as it hits the wall.

Silent.

A hushed wave fell over the house.

I don’t move this time.

It’s not over.

It will never be over,

And that is how my family loves.