Danielle

Danielle Boudiwan

Sorrow, and Survival

I saw the headlines; Hilter marches into Austria Warsaw is bombed Far away from that a darkside Forced-labor camps

Why do they hate us? They took away my parents They took away my possessions Theyre not gonna take away my soul

What do I see? Total darkness, and separation, Our eyes locked Tears rolling down our cheeks

I see the mall of dead I ask myself what is going on? <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: 'times new roman','new york',times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Wheres God?

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: 'times new roman','new york',times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Can you imagine? <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: 'times new roman','new york',times,serif; font-size: 16px;">The inhumanity of man against man <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: 'times new roman','new york',times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Why did I survive? <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: 'times new roman','new york',times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Why did god spear me?

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: 'times new roman','new york',times,serif; font-size: 16px;">The Holocast <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: 'times new roman','new york',times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Fifty thousand survived <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: 'times new roman','new york',times,serif; font-size: 16px;">So few live to tell <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: 'times new roman','new york',times,serif; font-size: 16px;">People are not born with hatred

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: 'times new roman','new york',times,serif; font-size: 16px;">I choose Sorrow and Survival, because I wanted to be able to tell a story, one that has lived through the whole thing so that I can portray a message to the readers. Survival was chosen so I could do exactly that, the few that did survive had the most to say. Sorrow, it was cruel and inhumane what the Nazi’s did to the Jews, but overall there was a feeling of sorrow and cruelty. They felt even as if they’re own God couldn’t save them; there was nothing left to do but to hope for survival. Many of them spent what felt like eternity in these concentration camps, then were just tortured and killed in the end. They’re family, friends and passions were taken away from them. The Jews had nothing left but themselves. People were left in depression, no hope for anything in life. In my poem I wanted it to tell a story from the beginning to end of a Jew. That is why my central theme was survival and sorrow, the only two things they had left.