Wednesday, February 9, 2011

23 Write about an Ancestor

Rifka

When the
steamship tickets arrived
in the mail
you said no.

You would rather
stay here
with the
hatred you know
then go
to the dark
of a new world
no better than
this one.

And when I look
at your passport photo,
I cant help
but think of all
the journey's you
never took.

How fear holds
us all in place,
glues us
to the miserable moment,
traps light
in its black prism.

Alone in our
tiny village,
we
wait
for the
jackboots
to take us
to a
place
we don't
even
dare to imagine.


Barry Lane For my Great Aunt Rifka who died in Poland circa 1943



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