Auschwitz Poem by prabhakar bhatlekar
Auschwitz
Face on the screen
zoomed to close-up
sharpening labyrinth of
hundred wrinkles.
Eyes lost in a abyss
of the past.
Present permanently
crucified on dark memories.
Falteringly he narrates
Auschwitz.
Wrinkles dissolved in
the montage of bare trees
mixing in melancholic sky
as the icy chill slid
on railway tracks and
hangs on barbed wires.
Screeching of opening
cattle car doors.
Draconian chimneys blench
burnt songs of lives.
I switch off the face...
and my own face on
still grey glass looked at me.
I move around by four walls,
a windowfull sky and then
in the mirror.
The face, skin, eyes, hair
and breathing nostrils.
A fixed identity!
I grope and feel the air
heavy with past seventy years.
Holocaust is a shame to mankind...let it no happen again...
Amazing to see what you have seen in your lifetime! It is beyond imagination, like a nightmare while sleeping, yet waking it's still there! Wonderful depiction of Auschwitz, thank you for sharing. RoseAnn
Documentaries on the holocaust are usually very nauseating to watch, a horrendous man inhumanity to man. A well articulated, nicely encapsulated piece of poetry, insightfully penned with conviction. Thanks for sharing Prabhakar and do remain blessed. Please read my poem MANDELA - THE IMMORTAL ICON.
wow that is amazing and I can almost picture what you are writing as I'm reading it, can't imagine what it must have really been like viewing that
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
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Verily, what had happened was unbearable, a shame on humanity.