Monday, June 5, 2017

Cry of the Iser River

Cry of the Iser River

Who to know the horror
dumped in my
waters?
The day they came,
the home of my creatures 
now a grave to the
heaviest dust,
dense in transgression

My currents saturated tenfold 
Blurry as the vision of war 
covered their eyes & ears
Oxygen replaced by specks of ashes.
By morning, corpses of those 
that time & place did not favor became
the tombstone the world feared to write.

Each particle of my waters,
A tear of the people they killed,
now echo the untold at

Nuremberg.

-M.S.

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