Brendon

Brendon Grates

People are not born with hatred…. They acquire it. The sadism The cruelty The irrationality They acquire it. There hatred was so blind

God gave us a heart and a mind and a free will The Nazis took them all away They took away my parents My siblings My identity But they wont take my soul

It was a madman’s hell The inhumanity of man against man Totally unreal Where is god? God is where you have your strength

The Jews are undoubtedly a race But they are not human

In my poem I focused on the conflict of fate and reality, I tried to convey this by clashing the outside world to the belief systems, and how the Jews still believed and had faith one day they would be free, although they were still undergoing immense amounts of pain and distress. They fought through the hardships of the holocaust.