Wednesday, 16 September 2020

A concentration of flashbacks

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Also for my late friend Thomas O.

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Once 

i was

and once

he was a human being

now 

he's thorn apart

though 

he's just the second generation

he's still a victim of crimes done

Barbed wire fences

the volts burn into his brain

the smell of corpses

every now and then 

it hits (back) 

again - 

he's surrounded by fences.

Flashbacks

though he wasn't even there.

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Dream 

he's running

in a dream

travelling fast and slow

by train

like sheep to the slaughter

he's a sheep

left....right

death or survival

once 

he was a human being

The smell of gas 

the smell of death

the overcrowded barracks

barbed wire fences

he runs and runs

he touches the wires

the volts burn my brain

i cry myself awake

he's thorn apart

second generation

victim of evil

once 

he too was 

a human being

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© 1983Oct23 - 2020Sept16



Triggered and inspired by some of my nightmares as a child and the book of Primo Levi.





  

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