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Blog Post #5:  For your final blog post, reflect on the totality of your experience at the museum and our study of the Holocaust and the Ar...

Tuesday, October 17, 2017

David - Blog post #4



Why have you come here?
Tell me, why?
May His name be celebrated and sanctified
The Almighty,
the eternal and terrible Master of the
Hundreds of men were crawling with him,
scraping their bodies with his on the stones
Thousands of lips repeated the benediction,
bent over like trees in a storm
Soon I wouldn't even be seeing them,
I would be one of them
I listened as the inmate's voice rose;
it was powerful yet broken,
amid the weeping, the sobbing,
the sighing of the entire "congregation"
Some were silently weeping
Wallow in your despair
Deep inside me,
I felt a great void opening

2 comments:

  1. David,
    You should organize your thoughts a bit more. The lines you used were strong but the poem as a whole was a bit confusing. It's good though.👍

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  2. David,
    You should organize your thoughts a bit more. The lines you used were strong but the poem as a whole was a bit confusing. It's good though.👍

    ReplyDelete