None Is, Too Many

Marking the 70th anniversary of Auschwitz Concentration Camp liberation, by Soviet troops, on January 27, 1945.

Every year

We say

"Never again".

As Tuesday

January 27, 2015

Marks the seventieth anniversary

Of Auschwitz Concentration Camp

Being liberated

By Soviet troops

In Poland.

And yet

It has happened

Again.

As another holocaust

With a small "h"

Has occurred.

Opposed to

The one

With a capital "H"

Holocaust .

Experienced

By Europe's

Jewish community

During World War II.

Once more

The warning signs

Are flashing

Before our eyes

Shall we heed them.

Of a growing criminalization

By various national governments

With their isolating

And marginalization policies

Towards the LGBT+ community.

Brutal

But effective tactics

The Nazi used

Against those

They had targeted.

Which

Ironically

They had selected

The LGBT+ community

As one of the degenerative elements

For Germany's failures

And loose morals.

A fact

Most people are

Ignorant of.

But

No more.

With this simple poem

I am making

My stand

For the world

To see and read.

Refusing to allow

Another holocaust

To go unreported.

While

My community dies

In silent shame

From the "West's" inaction

Like the Jews did

Under Hitler.

http://www.thepinktriangle.com/history/symbol.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/None_Is_Too_Many

Author's Note

Title, for this poem is, a comment, which a Canadian senior public servant made, when asked, about the Jewish situation, after WWII, and how many Jews would be allowed, into Canada, as refugees.

Reviews

[Emily B]

I will stand with you and all. There have been too many deaths already.

[willweb]

Therisa, there are many dark moments in the history of this angry world and I am sure there will be many more. It is sad, so sad the way one human being (and I use the term loosely) can treat another human being. I have heard that kindness is contagious, the problem is, there is not enough of it to creat an epidemic. Hopefully someday it will come.

[therisa]

I so want to hold onto, your last sentence, Will. In providing a light, on the darkest days, which too many of us, find ourselves, facing.

[~]

Thank you for posting this poem. I am actually teaching a unit on Holocaust. Would you mind if I share your poem with my students? Of course with credits due. I want them to see the truth behind the phrase: older but not wiser.

[therisa]

Your welcome, Moonskittles, and yes, you have my permission. I want more people to know, the Nazi targetted more than Jews, with their hateful philosophy.

[~]

Thank you! I will soon let you know what a bunch of 16 years old would comment on your poem :)

[therisa]

Moonskittles, your students will be far nicer, than some of the garbage that has happen here, over the past month.

[~]

Ohhhh... Sorry to hear that.

[therisa]

So am I. Have lost some very talent poets and friends, as a result.

[~]

I recon perfection will always be inside our hearts and acts of unkind souls will always be around us.

[R Smith]

the comparison's are very strong and we all should see where dislike of you or I becomes persecution and eventually death, this world needs to make a consciousness shift, one day maybe this will be so until then its left to the few to try to wake the many and hope they will come to understand, stirring writing Therisa invoking much emotion :)

[therisa]

Thank you, Richard. Sadly, its those, who are persecuted, who are sounding the alarm bells, which most people are ignoring, while watching fantasies playing out, on a video screen.

[MomzillaNC]

It seems humanity will always watch some "other" persecuted. Persecution is the ultimate judgmentalism -- it's the reason why people should start with NIV Luke 6:37 "Do not judge, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven." Whatever your beliefs, that stricture above reproach. Imagine the peaceful world we'd live in if everyone embraced that stricture? No person has the right to judge any other person's life and/or value.

[therisa]

Sadly, Momzilla, humanity will, always, find someone to use, as an escape goat, for their failings. Ridiculing those, they don't understand or who are different, those stand out from society.

[Rene Salinas]

Well this couldn't be any more relevant to, today's situations. We have police in musks and police in jewish synagogue because of fear of retaliation by those who think that in that way they would express their sentiments about the unfoldings elswhere. The ideological persecuion? Still persists -- The narrow minded sectarinism still alive, the decadence of thought that one group of human beings would and could be more than others still trying to prevail. The issue of refugees even more that a sensitive topic as so many do the journey from Syria to Italy and the fragment of history you allude to in this writing and all its emotions continues...

Great topic!

Thank you.

[therisa]

Thank you, Rene. Only wish, there wasn't a need to bring up this tragic past, which has raised it's ugly head, once more.

[Rene Salinas]

I think through your writing what becomes clear is that ideologies like that never leave, they simmer

[therisa]

Sad, but true, Rene.

[Matching Socks]

Gosh, I didn't know this.
I need to read your attached links.
I admire your courage therisa, for not shying away from certain topics.

[therisa]

Thank you, Ana, but the real courage belongs to those, who live under regimes, in Uganda, Russia and other countries, which have criminalized the LGBT+ community.