O Weep!

• Artist: WindDancingDragon
• Description: I had to read the book Night for class. It's about the Holocaust, and it's very moving. I was in tears at the end. I had so many pent up emotions after reading of Elie Wiesel's story through the concentration camps, that I had to get it out. This poem expresses my great grief that such evil occurred in the world, such carefully planned evil! We must never forget the evil of the Holocaust and the evil in the world today.
• Date: 03/01/2010
• Tags: weep night evil holocaust witness

O weep, my generation!
That people are reduced to animals,
sons killing fathers for crumbs!
O, weep to see what has been sown
by men who plant their lies,
poisoning minds.

O weep, daughters and sons of the kingdom of night!
Witness to the pain of those,
lives broken by the fear of the nations
families torn apart,
carefully planned extermination

O weep, you who forget this!
How can you turn from this?
How can you erase it from your memory?
Dismiss it as a hoax?
Behold what evil has wrought
witness to the lives
irrevocably torn apart,
the tatters of their lives flutter in the breeze
See this, and know evil has occurred!

O weep, you orpans,
your idyllic lives torn apart
witness to unspeakable evil,
reduced to primal instinct,
borther, father, friend,
no meaning anymore!

O weep, you who ignore the message
the cry from their graves!
They live on, to bring the message:
We must fight this evil,
must take a side,
for indecision only helps the oppressors.