Never Forget

By Kimberly Green



He tottered he tittered

He fell a few times

Boy it sure was hard

For him to climb



They ignored him

When he went to Sam’s

People looked at him

Like he was just another old man



Just a burden on society

I’m sure people might think

After all what good was he

Muttering 2 themselves; I bet he stinks



What they didn’t know

Perhaps they didn’t want 2 know-if given the chance

Was that he survived the Holocaust

He was alive not by circumstance



He saw his fellow comrades

Shoved over the bluffs

Saw them stand outside naked

Water thrown on them while in the buff



He witnessed people he loved

Shot gassed and beat

Witnessed the starving

He himself no food to eat



This old man whom was liberated

By the American GI’s

Battle hardened soldiers

Whom found it hard not to cry



This old man the one who couldn’t hear

Joined the United States Army

Making it his life

Making it his career





There aren’t many more left

In a few short years

The survivors of the Holocaust

Will all but disappear.