Laying Real Still

By Kimberly Green



He was lost

Didn’t know where his company was

When he heard more gunfire

He threw himself in a ditch

Laid real still

Didn’t move didn’t twitch



When at that moment in that space

He heard a small voice

I can’t breath get off my face



That’s when he realized

He had jumped in a death trench

Surrounded by the dead

His body felt like hot lead



They shot my family

The small voice said

I wish I too was dead

But here I am-I live



They waited until nightfall

To push the corpses out of the way

Still silent neither had nothing to say



Together they pulled themselves

From the pit of the dead

Made it to the wood line

When one of them said



You know I’m a Jew

We are hated world wide

We are considered inhuman

They want us all to die



They both looked at each other

Then they Bowed their heads

In unison they recited

The mourners Kaddish







When finished the American soldier said

I am Jewish as well

We are here to send

Hitler and his Nazis to hell.



A small light appeared

In what was once dead eyes

You have given me a renewed strength

I too shall fight-for I live-I am alive-it is not my time to die…