PrinceMyshkin
08-15-2009, 08:16 AM
What can we do
but demand of the past
that it undo itself,
that Januscz Korczak and every orphan
he ever smiled upon
be revived to us.
Light a candle
for all the little ones.
How many would it have taken
to feed the voracious ovens?
Blond hair, brown hair, cheeks
tinged with the last fever of life.
The flames
did not know
how they were named or what
they might have become.
but demand of the past
that it undo itself,
that Januscz Korczak and every orphan
he ever smiled upon
be revived to us.
Light a candle
for all the little ones.
How many would it have taken
to feed the voracious ovens?
Blond hair, brown hair, cheeks
tinged with the last fever of life.
The flames
did not know
how they were named or what
they might have become.