
Keep a Light On! By Michelle 💫 #ThriveTogether #wisewords #StarfishClub #poem #poetry #WritingCommunity @CoffeeandaChat1 #keepalighton
The Night Of Broken Glass
The Night before the turning point of evil.
I take this time to honour
My Brothers
My sisters
And their children.
For your faith is the foundation of my faith.
The founding fathers of my faith.
Without your faith; mine would not exist.
Your faith unites in mine.
For without your faith; mine could not exist.
For centuries you have known nothing but pain.
So I choose to commemorate
So I choose to acknowledge
So I choose to keep my light on tonight.
To keep an eternal light on
To honour all those who were lost
To all those who lived through.
Yet; has this modern day society
learnt from the atrocities of the Holocaust; in WWII?
With fake news a rife;
Politicians set against each other,
Acts of terrorism on my fellow neighbours
For propaganda is still yet ravenous.
So again I say to you has this modern globe learned from the acts of the past?
This pandemic; for many serves only to remind them of their experiences that they endured and yet; survived.
Laying in the lies of history; while fragments salvaged from the past are Beacons of light for they show the truth.
Bystanders then and now
Perpetrators then and now
Living alongside survivors.
Yet; I loose not hope;
For I am moved by the social act of listening; for this is a Social Action.
The History of truth emerges from the dark;
Lost memories not overcome without remembering; to never be forgotten.
We shall learn from history!
For amidst this Pandemic
We shall all learn to help each other;
For amidst this Pandemic
We shall learn to support each other,
So that each of us may have freedom to worship without fear.
© all rights reserved & protected to the author Michelle written on 09/11/2020 to commemorate Kristallnacht
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