Powerless

Horrible awakening
On the train
Middle of the night

The train traveling
The terror beginning

Seeing the fire
Through the eyes of Madame Schachter
Feeling powerless and scared

A piercing cry
Split the silence
An endless night

Jews were crying

Our nerves
At a breaking point
We can’t breathe
Normally

It is a furnace
A fire

Screaming Jews
Breathless at times

Separation
From parents
And children

People wanted to go home
-L.P.