Lidice

june tenth

nineteen

forty two

your children were

swept up, unseen

 by the enemy

the entire town,

even the trees

lidice

 

men, boys

lined up, broken toys

 side to side

against mattresses

(muffle)

bang!…sound cried

lidice

 

 women, girls

gathered

seperated picked

some saved

for the shade

sighs

of their hair, eyes

 

 

the rest……

well

lidice

 

those girls

those lucky?

not jews, nor german girls

sent away, in the

wind unfurls

to be molded

into………

 

 lidice

they lost

their homes

(raked down to dust)

their families

(burned up to dust)

their memories

(forgotten, filed down to dust)

 

and yet

a small tangible

tiny miniscule

memory remains

of death trains

of before

as they lived their

german lives

stolen into

nazi families

of

before

again

 

they are ripped from

those fake

turned real families

returned to the

gaunt shadow of

parents

they barely

remember

language, forgotten

 

thats what happend

on june tenth nineteen

forty two

in lidice

 

 

Anne