Where Was The World? Poem by Fiona Schwartzinoff

Where Was The World?

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The gaunt figures of the holocaust
Walking silhouettes of dead.
I wonder at their caved in eyes
And their ghastly shaven heads.

Their empty eyes gazing
Into darkness everlasting
Didn’t the world smell the gas
Or hear the cries of lashing?

Didn’t the world notice the vanished faces
Or the empty houses or missing pearls?
I look at their faces, the eyes of phantoms,
And I wonder: where was the world?

Fiona Schwartzinoff
Thursday, December 19, 2013
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I was inspired by the horrible photos and video taken of the concentration camps. The poor victims of ignorance and hate thought that the world was coming for them. But it came too late. Where was the world?
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