The Soviet Red army, <br />Witness scenes of inhumanity. <br />Imprinted in their conscience, <br />As they enter a ‘hole’ in the fence, <br />Met by eyes, sunken and sullen, <br />Revealing souls that were stolen. <br />No joyous freedom cries. <br />Indifference in their eyes. <br />No feelings of elation at all, <br />Humans lying around, others ready to fall. <br />Many dead, many ready to die. <br />Their eyes were all cried out and dry. <br />Far away stares and faces gaunt <br />Bodies of skin and bones, looks that haunt, <br />Starved in to a ’living death’ fragile, weak, <br />Lifeless but alive, some unable to speak. <br />Emotionally they were dead, <br />Silent voices in each head. <br />From the torture and neglect, <br />They had no tears left. <br /> <br />The Nazis had long fled, <br />Leaving their ‘living dead.’ <br />Unspeakable and unimaginable acts, <br />Perpetrators tried to cover their tracks. <br />Records were burnt and destroyed, <br />Explosives on the ‘ovens’ was employed. <br /> <br />Survivors gave harrowing testimonies, <br />Details of faces conducting atrocities. <br />Those same faces that gave orders to kill, <br />Standing trial, showing no remorse still. <br />Only cockiness, sheer arrogance, <br />Words and attitudes of defiance. <br />They got their comeuppances, <br />Guilty verdicts and death sentences. <br />Maybe some justice or consolation, <br />For survivors who endured the camps of concentration.<br /><br />guy lipmore<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/no-tears-left/
