The Hollow Cost of Hate.

The Hollow cost of hate

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132 mouths agape 

dry black holes 

in soundless screams

eye sockets glare 

some empty or filled

with looks of "WHY?"

unseeing gazes 

of astonishment or

with a glutinous 

melting mass

beneath those melting 

eyes flesh shudders

arms and legs are now 

just brittle toothpicks 

tumbled and jumbled together

sticking out in all directions

in flesh and blue pickup sticks

splayed and arrayed

around genitals 

shrunken with fear

shaved heads gleaming in 

the waning sunlight

flesh hanging in folds

over sunken bellies

tiny ones still sucking

a dessicated thumb 

for sustenance

breasts like empty sacs

could not feed their babies

from the hunger 

that rumbled

once beneath them

the stench of 

carbon monoxide

and feces floated 

between the buzzing 

of the flies

feasting on this 

pile of famine

It was just four 

sun bleached

photos that a soldier shot

in Dachau in 1945......

documented

and made real by 

his prescence there 

I knew him well and he has

shown only a  few 

the horrors 

he'd brought back

I counted babies crumpled 

in rag doll fashion

and children sleeping under 

an adult hood of 

dead flesh above them

some folks say 

the Holocaust was staged

not real... produced by 

tricks and fake photos

but I've talked to a 

man who stood there

and shot four pictures 

and had to stop

to vomit and couldn't 

take any more

I've seen the 

hollow cost of hate

drip from the beaded saline

in his eyes and 

in 58 year old 

kodak moments from hell

the price is ungodly

and hell is full of 

Nazi's in jumbled piles

of agonized living,

burning flesh

choking forever on 

fire, and brimstone gas

as they mimic forever

what they left behind

a legacy of hate

in the over six million lost

that formed the many piles

of a precious people

exterminated