Sixty Years ago <br />The best and worst <br />Machine of death <br />The world has known <br />Stopped loading <br />Barely living bones <br />From off the ramp <br />To starve in slavery <br />Tortured rules <br />Experiments on teenaged girls <br />Slow death <br />From sudden beatings <br />Necks half-snapped <br />Before forced meetings <br />Standing hours <br />In mind and snow <br />Clothed naked <br />Useless frozen tools <br />Discarded into ditches whole <br />Not fat to make a candle from <br />Life worth less than the paper time <br /> <br />It stopped. <br /> <br />(Try as I might <br />I see no light <br />That comes from this <br />Like Levi <br />All that’s known <br />Can only make the heart grow dark) <br /> <br />One day <br />Some sixty years ago <br />It stopped.<br /><br />Andrew Fincham<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/auschwitz-25th-january-2005/
