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Can you see them?

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Can you see them?, the women, the kids and the old,
Huddled together in the dark and the cold.

Can you see them?, the children all crying in fear,
Clutching their mothers as the death camp draws near.

Can you see them?, the camp guards emptying the trains
Herding them forward ignoring their pains.

Can you see them?, the innocents, naked and cold,
“Able bodied on this side, on that, sick and old”

Can you see them?, the gas chambers, ready and waiting
What did they do?, what caused all this hating?

Can you see them?, the bodies all piled up for burning,
The ovens, the smoke, the stench, stomach - churning.

Can you see them?, the kids asking “what did we do?”
And the parents explaining “it’s because you’re a Jew”

Can you see them?, the gold teeth, the glasses, the shoes
All that remains of six million Jews.

Can you see them? The statesmen stood with serious faces
Saying “never again, we’ll protect the worlds races”

Can you see them?, The Hutus, Sudanese and the Kurds
Their looks of relief at these comforting words.

Can you see them?, my friend you say that you can?
Well if so you should weep at the cruelty of man.
 
I see

Jeryd I see Them,
Your Great prose does not lie
the Yiddish word "Drucken"
make self small, unnoticed or die,
Lets hope We are civilised &
never to see such abomination of Humanity.

Thanx Jerryd & Kate Ok John
 
:D jerryd, I'm withyou all the way, but am not convinced we have learned much...
...Can you see them?, The Hutus, Sudanese and the Kurds
Their looks of relief at these comforting words...
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After what has been happening over the last few years under the guise of world peace and antiterrorisum, I for one think humanity still has a very long way to go. :(
 
To be or not to be that is the question?

Its interesting when reading the written word, but especially poetry, how the author and reader can interperate things differently.

Can you see them?, The Hutus, Sudanese and the Kurds
Their looks of relief at these comforting words
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When I read that line, the fact that Jerry stated other races that had been hounded and victimised by more 'powerful' groups, actually made me think that the it wasnt meant to be comforting - more of a thought provoking, 'rhetotric sarcascm'?

The following line then clinched the meaning for me.

Can you see them?, my friend you say that you can?
Well if so you should weep at the cruelty of man.
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Thanks Sue
The point I was trying to make in my clumsy way is that nothings changed really.
Man happily goes on killing man and while I'm on my soapbox does anyone else find it strange that the Indonesians are carrying on with their civil war while we provide food and shelter for their tsunami victims?
 
:D Jerry I'm sorry if you and Sue misunderstood what I was getting at.
I was agreeing with you, but missed out some words in my last sentance, it should read - 'I for one like you, think humanity still has a very long way to go'.
It just shows how missing out two words can alter the meaning of what you are saying.
 
Yes We Can

Your Ok Pom-Chris, we knew the missing 2 words were "Love & Care"
Cuz thats your way Ok x.Heh Jerryd "They" never stop do they?
Indonesian Civil War noted but not so strange continuance really,
"They" like the smokescreen of calamity, disaster of natural or Man made to plunder any "power vacuum" & profit from the mayhem around.
Talking of profit & calamities maybe we should go & hold their coats?
give em a bit of cheese, pretty clocks, nice penknives Oh & an Army with hairnets, Oh & WE could hold Their Money for them, good idea Eh!
Oh its been done before, silly me I forgot, was done by a lot of Bankers if I remember it right, Ooops hope I spelled that right.
Mmmmh John

me sarcastic ? never :roll:
 
Thought provoking as ever, Jerry. As man is an abomination, I fear this will go on till the end of the world.
 
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