The Things I Saw…

"The things I saw beggar description...The visual evidence and verbal testimony of starvation, cruelty and bestiality were so overpowering as to leave me a bit sick."
General Dwight D. Eisenhower

These things that took place beggar description, 
walking skeletons, 
limbs like broom sticks with stretched out flesh.

This was the work of the master race, 
all put rightly in their place, 
constructed empire of destruction, 
minds content on death's construction. 

The death train, 
open, not hidden, 
a monument to cruelty, 
piled up corpses, 
proof of what has been done.

Are there any left alive? 
How could anyone have survived?

What mind could design this hellish place?
What mind could conceive of this place?
What God could ever allow it to exist?
Some came away shaking their heads, 
saying they were never big believers in God, 
but now they know the devil is real.

Far beyond what is civilized,
this place has sunk into the blackest darkness,
a created hell on purpose, 
lacking all morality, 
all reduced to nothing, 
on ashes, corpses and emaciated survivors remain.

Then the lying people, 
unable and unwilling to comprehend their role, 
this bloody play is over, 
but the curtain was raised again, 
for the whole world to see.

This was the work of the master race, 
creators and lords of this horrible place, 
framed by mortal hands, this awful symmetry, 
a monument to their scientific bigotry. 

10/21 - 10/25/24

T. S. Deary