It's Holocaust Memorial Day today in the UK. I was wondering where to place this ... bit too intense and sad for Bag End. Tol Eressëa seemed better.
I wrote this poem some time ago, and I offer it humbly as a sort of prayer. This is, after all, holy ground.
To Anne Frank
Your fertile mind,
your quick judgments:
Every parent’s daughter,
the universal teenager.
Your pale scrap of a face,
dark hair like a flag.
All your hormones and hopes,
thin reed in the wind.
Your sweet humanity.
Your terrible journey.
Your bright words, undimmed.
To Anne: “L’chaim!”
And the names of the torturers are mostly forgotten.
And they became nothing but dust and ashes.
But you and your people,
we have remembered.
And we will remember.
Holocaust Memorial Day
Holocaust Memorial Day
"Frodo undertook his quest out of love - to save the world he knew from disaster at his own expense, if he could ... "
Letter no. 246, The Collected Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien
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Thanks, Jewel.
It's unbearable to think about that bright, feisty teenager's terrible end, and her sister's. Their poor mother - she wasn't even with her girls.
Thank God her precious diary survived (thanks to that dear, wonderful woman Miep Gies).
Anne was not a saintly martyr but a blessedly normal teenage girl. Her words speak for all the other, countless, lives viciously snuffed out by an evil regime.
It's unbearable to think about that bright, feisty teenager's terrible end, and her sister's. Their poor mother - she wasn't even with her girls.
Thank God her precious diary survived (thanks to that dear, wonderful woman Miep Gies).
Anne was not a saintly martyr but a blessedly normal teenage girl. Her words speak for all the other, countless, lives viciously snuffed out by an evil regime.
"Frodo undertook his quest out of love - to save the world he knew from disaster at his own expense, if he could ... "
Letter no. 246, The Collected Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien
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