YWA Honorable Mention 2008
Poetry Grades 7-8
David Schwerdt
Hell on Earth
My face is covered in smoke
My lungs are filled with ash
I see people running and falling
And I feel sorrow and despair
I hear gunshots and screaming
There is terror everywhere
I watch as they kill the children
The elderly and the weak
I watch and I think of the future
And sense it may never be
I watch and I hope against hope
That someone will rescue me
I look to Heavens in prayer
And I hear my father cry
Will we be alive tomorrow?
It is all in the hands of G-d
Yitzchak Cohen, 15 Poland 1942
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