If this is a man- the ballod of Primo Levi

I often like to wite about people who inspire me. Primo levi is an aclaimed jewish chemist who in the 1930's was captured and sent to a concentration camp.

A man who commited no crime,

Yet forced to do the hardest time.

They shaved his head,

Gave him straw for a bed.

There was something special they knew,

But he was a convicted jew.

The nazi's seeked to destroy,

Primo Levi the geniouse boy.

Sent to work in the cold all day.

Not a bad word would he say.

He survived out of pride

and took it all in his stride.

Threw all the indignition,

He never forgot his posistion.

With the number tattoed on his arm,

By the germans who only mean harm.

He barterd his food,

With those who fought and brood.

Alas! finaly! liberation came!

But poor Primo was never the same.

He had nightmares that plauge his sleep,

Of unfair guilt he chose to keep.

The acclaimed chemist could handle it no more,

He could no longer live with the pain he bore.

Italy's hero finaly slain.

His memory lives on - it was not in vain.

Primo Levi look to the sky and see.

Go home and rest you are finaly free.

Author's Note

Ignore spelling please

Reviews

[barleygirl]

This is interesting . . . about someone I've never heard of . . . but with so many details, it's easy to get a picture in our minds about what kind of person this is & what he's going thru. Very good description of the time spent in a concentration camp. There are a few words that don't sound quite right . . . "The Nazi's seeked" . . . would sound better as: "The Nazis sought"

"Threw all the indignition" . . . I think you might mean: "Through all the indignation" . . . and on the next line, "position" is misspelled.

"nightmares that plauge" . . . try "plague"