This Poem was Submitted By: arnie s WACHMAN On Date: 2001-02-21 15:43:17 . . . Click Here To Mail this Poem to a Friend!

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Horror In Glass And Granite

I remain haunted even after several months,      of experiencing, seeing, feeling      the black granite walls which shriek out at me still. Names, thousands of names bear a stark reminder      of a senseless war. And the statues begging for help,      of nurses tending the dying      reach in and pull at my heart. I don't understand, and yet I am so terribly moved. Finally the Holocaust Museum, Stark and forbidding as it should be. Steel and exposed glass of the building hide nothing      of the horrors. Shoes, railway cars, and then the ovens. Those ovens remain as a silent memorial      that 6 million died. For what - A mad man bent on destruction. Today I write this haunted by my memories, Memories that do not go away. I feel exposed like the steel and glass and granite walls. Rusting...

Copyright © February 2001 arnie s WACHMAN

Additional Notes:
Today, almost 2 years later since I visited Washington, DC., I am still affected by the memories, especially after I look through the photos that I took there. As a Registered Nurse, when I saw the statue of the nurse tending to the dying soldier, I had to sit down, reflect, and cry. I was truly overcome.


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