In honor of Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom Hashoah)
Soot poured from the large chimneys.
Coloring clouds distemper and black.
The men in the camp did their labor
Thankful for the cover of shade,
But each man also saw the slim light from the sky
Watching over them and it gave them substance.
Sabbath, the men forced to work
Followed the light, whispered passages of Torah,
Passed coded prayers to one another
Knowing the guards could cause more evilForcing their bodies to degrade even further,
But knew they could never stunt their souls
Growing stronger and stronger
Ten times brighter than the sun.
| Copyright © 2023 by Michael H. Brownstein Michael H. Brownstein’s volumes of poetry, A Slipknot Into Somewhere Else and How Do We Create Love?, were published by Cholla Needles Press in 2018 & 2019, respectively. |
Thank you, Michael, for this solemn tribute to bring our minds back….
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