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The Soldier and the Girl

July 22, 2014
By Katie289 SILVER, Lexington, Massachusetts
Katie289 SILVER, Lexington, Massachusetts
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Favorite Quote:
"If you're always trying to be normal you'll never know how amazing you can be," ~Maya Angelou


The girl wonders pensively
amid the spring rain and the cobblestone streets
danger is foreign to her mind in the moment
music touches her spirit with ease
and sings comforting words
that weaken her worry
she is carefree
despite the star on her overcoat
marking that she shouldn’t be

I watch yearningly
I long for the days when I had not yet seen cruelty
they forced the sweet simplicity from my soul
without my knowledge of it
boiled rotten by authority
leaving me stale and stiff
meaningless besides inflicting terror
I can feel my sympathy crumbling
but I’m too scared to stop it
from turning into dust

All too soon she will know the truth
her darling dreams will be hauled away with her
the confusion and loss will weaken her
before they dismiss her
absent mindedly
along with other bodies torn from their characters
to block the guilt from screaming

Slowly her sullen and sunken face
will be stripped of the small and wondrous flame
her eyes hold amid her dry tears
too scared to speak


The author's comments:
I chose to write this poem from the perspective of a soldier viewing a little jewish girl who hasn’t yet been effected by Hitler's reign because it was a perspective that isn’t seen much. The soldier understands the cruelty of the situation but is also stuck in the middle of it too. I chose to memorialize this topic because I feel that it’s a time in history that is looked back on as a time when Germans were bad and Jews were helpless victims, which is true in many cases, but not everyone was fooled by Hitler's reign and I thought this would be a part of WWII that should be shown too.

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