#13 Found Peom

While studying the Holocaust I wrote a found poem based of the horrible events that occurred to the children put under Doctor Mengele's care. A found poem is a poem with lines and phrases taken from multiple sources and put together in a unique order to create something new. Through this poem I hope to convey at least a piece of the immense pain, fear, and anguish experienced during these times.

 

Mengele’s Children

Ripped from our homes, our lives, our families

We were shivering children in the dark

Till he came like an angel, bring candies and promises of life

This demon in disguise

The only one left to call Father now

This angel of death, a surviving symbol of Hitler’s power

Guiding the innocent souls to die in the hands of the devil

The curtain soon fell

Turned into blackness twisted lies so rude

They put us in freezing baths

Smeared chemicals on our skin

Injected with disease we were left to die

This pain is torture 

Not ever meant to be felt

I had to sit back and watch others suffer and not survive

Those who never had a chance

How were we once scared of the monsters in our closet?

More dangerous are the common men

Ready to spill innocent blood without question