Head bent
Heart on my sleeve
The Nazis tried to steal my life from me
Tossed in a ditch
Shot Left to die
Afraid to move afraid to flinch
Slowly ever so quietly I rose
Thru the heap of dead
I wanted to live - not find my body froze
I took my neighbors clothes
Corpse after corpse
In fear of being bulldozed
I had no idea where I was
Only that I had been shot
Only scraped- only a little blood
For days I laid among the dead
Warmed by bodies
Whom felt like lead
I clawed my way to the top
Survival was instinct
I had to live I couldn’t stop
The others lay as they were
Frozen by the ice
Not able to move not able to stir
Freeing myself from the dead- rising from the earth
Am I not human-although I am Jewish
Do I not have worth?
I think back to all those years ago
Those memories still are vivid
They are fresh never old
Yes the Nazis tried to steal my life
I survived the impossible
It is now that I can finally cry
***Never forget the Holocaust and the millions upon millions of human beings that were murdered by the Nazi war machine ***
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I Rose Through the Heap
by guest author Kimberly Green
