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What do you think of my poem which deals with the Holocaust and my dark side?

Survivor’s Luck

Now that we have left the century of the Holocaust

we have an outpouring, flood of Holocaust art -

movies, memoirs, plays, installations

And yet we know even if we are moved,

we cannot know if we weren’t there

My friends or so-called friends drain me

I wouldn’t mind throwing them

into the fiery pit of my mind

to be destroyed there

And would I have survivor’s guilt

if I did

If I will be honest,

I am also a so-called friend

Would I visit the latest memorial to the 6 million

or join the March of the Living

Or am I just a so-called Jew

Pretending to feel the horrors

My friend’s father,

a Holocaust survivor

told his story,

sitting in the kitchen

to friends and family

I sat in the living room, watching

I would not get up

I would not join them

I would not finally witness his story

Was it fear

Was it sorrow

Was it a form of my so-called sensitivity

Or some kind of perversity saying like a devil,

even in the horror, you are unwelcome

So I don’t know his story

from sheer willpower not to know

I do remember hearing the word “luck”

Of course, it had to be luck

He didn’t know how he survived

He was just lucky

And I am lucky too

For I have survived

the horrors of my mind

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  • 1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    Disturbing but well written. This shows you are brave and face problems head on, as can be seen by your scathing poem on a dark section of history. This also shows how you, a Jew, see things the way it is and not hide everything under the carpet. The world needs people like you.

  • ras
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

    It concerns a non secular and actual haunting. Xenogeny: Giving beginning to some thing unusual, a distant places (extraterrestrial or from yet another measurement) existence. it would additionally be our hidden fears, oppressions that are accumulated and directed in direction of some thing threatening and unsightly. Boat, hollow decrease on throat. Slaughtered? Or drowned to death? Rusty disposes in direction of some thing steel and previous. In a wild attempt of guessing, this good be Ares, the pink planet, packed with iron corrosion, rust yet with out environment. nevertheless to have rust, pink, potential there develop into Oxygen returned then, returned then it develop into, a memory of Ares, ineffective now, inhabitants choked to death without a appropriate environment to breath from. i'd desire to be a techniques out out of your suggestion, yet as consistently, I offered a logical clarification. you're a charismatic author, a chum and a brother.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    An interesting read, but I don't pretend to know the horrors of the holocaust, nor do I believe the writer could possibly grasp the depth of its inhumanity.

  • 1 decade ago

    "Get someone well knowledge to tell you" MEANS he doesn't know what he's talking about. And of course he says that after he critiques something he knows nothing about, LOL!

    All you need is more experience, keep working hard at it and you will do fine!

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Wrong category. Put it under Poetry. But to answer your question about the poem, I think using the work "luck," or "lucky" insults all those who suffered and died in the holocaust.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Not well written. You could never make any money writing poems. There are many problems with it. Perhaps you could get someone well knowledge to tell you. The subject matter has lost its appeal. Most people know what happened and are pretty much tired of being reminded.

    Not to mention it is in the wrong category.

  • 1 decade ago

    Very well written. Perhaps a bit dark on some levels.

    Very expressive. I did enjoy reading it.

    I am certain that in some form it was therapeutic emotionally.

    Source(s): Thanks for sharing
  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Heartfelt and well written. I don't think it's an insult to use "luck" and "lucky". It explains why some survived when others didn't. My relatives were among the "unlucky".

  • adam h
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago

    senior goth or emo???????? kewl ! ps-the guy above me is a creep! he has no empathy,ignore him.im sorry ur family went thru that.

  • 1 decade ago

    I appreciate it. I met my friend's mother who told me how she was in a camp with her sister. Her sister got sick, and they took her away. She thought they would take her to a doctor, but they took her to the gas chamber.

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