Betsy Dobson, Green Middle School

Genocide Hasn’t Died

The Holocaust may be over.

Even today people face

Terrible tragedies of their last breath.

It may not be worse than the Holocaust.

We need to teach our children,

For the past loss of humanity.

Genocide hasn’t died.

People still suffer today.

We need to keep this problem at bay,

We need to help them, to save them.

We need to learn more

About the past and present,

So we can help eliminate

This ever existing problem.

Genocide hasn’t died.

The disasters will continue.

If we don’t stop them,

Innocent victims will die.

They are beaten and murdered.

Why do they have to go through the suffering,

For the whims of another race?

Genocide hasn’t died.

Starving skeletons of malnourished humans

Wander around looking for humanity.

Even the smallest bit of food will please them.

If we don’t stop it now

It may happen to you or me.

We can’t see into the future.

Genocide hasn’t died.

Thousands of innocent people taken

Into a life of torture and humiliation,

Only to have wretched death.

Jews, Gypsies, and Homosexuals,

With handicaps and several others,

Are sent to death or labor camps.

Genocide hasn’t died.

The pleasure of one man

At the loss of another’s life,

In a gas chamber at Auschwitz.

"Arbeit macht frei,"

Or "Work makes one free,"

So reads the sign outside.

Genocide hasn’t died.

Huge "showers" aren’t what you may think.

They only help the Nazis,

Taken from their homes, only to be

Trapped in ghettos as they suffer.

Sharing a small house with other people,

Resembling nothing of a home.

Genocide hasn’t died.

Hope is the only thing left.

The hope of a better life,

The hope of liberation day.

Hope keeps them going.

The hope of seeing their family,

The hope of a safe home.

Genocide hasn’t died.

They all have dreams.

Dreams of a husband or wife.

We need to make it possible

For those dreams to become reality.

Genocide hasn’t died.