The Holocaust
SHOAH They came in the gloom of ghetto dawn: came in their menacing, drab grey trucks: came in their shining limousines, prowling the streets like cruising sharks. They came with guns and clubs and dogs: came with bayonets sticks and whips: and fired with their insensate rage, they severed our history at a stroke: shattered our time in a myriad shards. We had no time to mourn our dead: no Kaddish* for the dead in the streets: no time once more to love our wives: no time to see our fruit trees... Sign in to see full entry.