We Remember – Liberation Poem

I wrote the following poem based on the journal entry by Charles V. Ferre, on his experience of liberating a concentration camp during WWII. I took verbs, nouns and adjectives from the poem to determine the tone of the poem. I then wrote my own poem based on these words as a tribute to those men and women who put their lives at risk so that I can live in a country of freedom. My poem is based off of troops that liberated concentration camps during WWII, which housed corpes and remains of countless Jewish souls.

jewish-liberation-scene

(Jewish men and women are cheering for their freedom during the liberation.)

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Sporadic gunfire,
Cruel SS soliders tormenting,
Dead bodies lay piled high,
An unimaginable amount.
Ones who are alive,
Starved to near death,
Suffering from tragic beating.
Skeletal people running and pummelling,
Ones who once tortured them.
Trying to get revenge.
A horrendous stench fills the air.
Commanding phone calls,
Our own lives at risk.
We came to save the Jews.
But yet, people still doubt.

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