HOLOCAUST CENTER BOSTON NORTH - Return to Auschwitz

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Present Memories

Return to Auschwitz

The night of our visit to Auschwitz, I wrote:

This is unreal reality

A feeling empty and remote

I should devote eternity

To this colossal sense of loss

Instead I am confused, annoyed

I had prepared for other moods

For sadness, for insanity

But not this calm, horrific void

The hurt will surely come in time

With madness, anger, even tears

And I shall welcome these old friends

Whose touch I do no longer fear

Tonight my feelings are all wrong

I long to bring the sting of pain

Again to feel alive, aware

It is the numbness I can’t bear

And yet I hope the sun will rise

Once more to warm humanity

To bind the wounds and heal the scars

Of this unreal realty