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Title: Witness Post by: Shammu on July 22, 2006, 02:58:48 PM In memory of Etty Hillesum. She died at the hands of the Nazis, on November 30 1943. Etty was twenty nine years old.
Witness I should have known it was you in the ordinary moonlight come back as an orchid blood red stained curves of white swaying praying between the crumbling headstones bearing no names I heard you singing Or was it the wind the same soothing song you sang to the children as you rode on the train to Auschwitz knowing deep down in your roots it is never work that make you free Where else could you thrive untamed stubborn witness still nourished by your communion with silent martyrs still insisting salvation remains in the ability to see the sky..... |