Survivor's Guilt

A Jew
In defiance
Wearing Stars of David
German born with German blood in
My veins


Named for
Dead Grandmothers
Who perished in Auschwitz
So I must never forgive or
Forget


Hitler's
Calls for their deaths
And Final Solution
Will haunt my waking hours and dreams
Always


I live
Only because
Six million Jews have died
My life is an obligation
To them


Freedom
Is a concept
Unfamiliar to me
Because I am an German and
A Jew

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