A simple poem written for Holocaust Day, whenever that was. It took me a little while to write and says that, today, we should spend more time worrying about those people who deny that it ever happened and maybe less on those who are sadly no longer with us. After all, the most important thing is that it should never happen again.
Holocaust Deniers
Peace be with us all today
As we think of those that died for a label
In concentration camps in the cold north east
That some, feeble in mind, still consider a fable
And as you sit and eat your Sunday feast
Feed not the greed that stands in memory’s way
Welcome these thoughts to your dinner table
Through you those who suffered may have their say
Think about those lost families and friends
As we wish ours, the living, “long life”
The unforgotten brother, sister, father or mother
Who failed to survive this man-made strife
Crushed by the rush to condemn the other
On whom no shield of compassion descends
They separated child from husband and wife
For an ideology whose egregious evil never ends
They stand behind and stoke the fires
Those who refute this torture’s existence
Forgive the followers, blinded by leaders
Consider them weak, or prone to pretence
But never placate or tolerate
The true designers of funeral pyres
Those sowers of seeds of rumour and hate
Deny space and time to Holocaust Deniers