You must never lose faith,
even when the sword hangs over your head.
Surely it was a dream -
so many cries,
on the threshold of death.
I yelled against the wind,
for the world to be kept silent.
Never shall I forget those flames,
which have consumed my faith forever.
We were lucky.
Soon we shall have crossed over,
humanity would never tolerate it.
Our feet sank into the mud.
It was as though madness was taking possession of us all.
At all costs we must keep together,
the same smoke floats over all our heads.
A dark flame has entered my soul and devoured it.
They'll never wake again,
prayer for the dead-
free at last.
Slow agony of the flames
without fail
this was the true equality.
Drive out despair -
anything is possible,
the choice is in your hands.
We gave thanks to God.
Above all-else have faith.
Author notes
This poem is personal from me from reading Elie Wiesel's - Night. I read it time and time again, the horror - the undeniable truths that were faced by Elie, his father, and the rest of the Jewish population. I hope everyone gets to read this book, as it will make you weep with a new understanding of our history.
This is a poem of Elie's Words throughout his story "Night". A compilation of the worst fears of a human being on the threshold of a new life. I had taken his words from throughout the novel, and arranged them how I saw fit to create this poem called "Faith Will Keep Us Alive". I hope you enjoy it.
Work Cited:
Elie Wiesel - Night, Trans. Stella Rodway. New York: Bantam Books, 1960.
A contest entry
- Erase the Hate October - Holocaust by Page Shut down.
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Comments
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A poem about the Holocaust. Good job, but this is not quite what I was looking for though. Horrible event and you wrote about it well but again not the POV I was looking for. Thanks for the entry though.
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Wow, this is really great. But horrifying, Those acts that those people did to so many was outrageous, I hope they were tortured. And Burn In Hell. To see all the people when they show the stories on t.v. is awful.
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Thanks for your entry
The brutality of it, the horror, that Human Beings could inflict such torcher, pain and torment is beyond comprehension, yet it survives, it lives on, it is an enduring disease of the Human race and in some cases it even thrives, and we need to cut it out of ourselves. As God to cleanse us of it. Keep Faith!
Good Luck and God Bless
Tammy
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The Holocaust shines hate and sinister acts among human being as an entity. We will never forget or let it become forgotten the torture these people lived by on a daily basis. Thank you for reading my poem!
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Wow... This is deep and sad. You know, I bought that book last year before I left on deployment. And during the duration of deployment, I probably read the book at least three times. It was so sad. I couldn't possibly imagine being in his shoes. Watching his mother and sister be taken off like that to be burned alive and never seen or heard from ever again. And then to have been able to live with his dad all those years until they killed him, and then he was angry at first, and then sad. And now to know that he teaches at a school up in Massachusettes makes me just want to go and shake his hand and meet him. I hope I get that opportunity one day. Well anyways, this was great. I like how you took those words from the book and put them into this poetic form. Great job!!
God Bless You!!
Charles
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Night is a very touching book, and hard not to read more than once. Sometimes I found myself re-reading a single page over and over again. Truly a tragedy, and the way Elie tells his story almost puts you right there at the concentration camps with him. Thank you so much for your comment, it was most appreciated!
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