These are poems about the victims and survivors of great disasters and tragedies: the Holocaust, the Palestinian Nakba, the Trail of Tears, 9-11 ...
Survivors
by Michael R. Burch
(for the victims and survivors of 9/11 and their families)
In truth, we do not feel the horror
of the survivors,
......
We, the survivors
of the ravages of time
illness, loneliness and pain
wonder what's the next outcome
of life's uncertainties
and often in our melancholy and stupor
we watch ourselves as helpless pawns
in a heartless game that fate creates and ask: what's in store?
These are poems about the victims and survivors of great disasters and tragedies: the Holocaust, the Palestinian Nakba, the Trail of Tears, 9-11 ...
Survivors
by Michael R. Burch
(for the victims and survivors of 9/11 and their families)
In truth, we do not feel the horror
of the survivors,
......
We, the survivors
of the ravages of time
illness, loneliness and pain
wonder what's the next outcome
of life's uncertainties
and often in our melancholy and stupor
we watch ourselves as helpless pawns
in a heartless game that fate creates and ask: what's in store?