Proud

I am proud of this piece of work because normally poetry comes fairly easy to me. I enjoy it, but when I was writing those 5 poems for my final project in our novel study, well I had a lot more trouble with that. This poem is about Aushwitz, and it was a very emotional time, so writing a poem about it, well it was difficult to keep the poem emotional and making sence. I feel that I was able to do that as well as I could. These are the reasons why I am proud of this piece in particular.

Don’t Want to be Here

Where are we,
What is this place.
All standing around,
Same look on our face.

I want to go home,
To where I belong.
So that I can,
Play my own song.

These people,
They’ve ruined our lives.
Watching us like,
We all carry knives.

Why do they think,
We aren’t deserving.
Of the life they lead,
Or do they like observing.

As our numbers dwindle,
They all smile.
For they know we,
Can’t even walk a mile.

Death and sorrow,
Grief and pain.
Our favourite days,
Are when it rains.

A piece of bread is,
All we get.
We are still starving,
As the sun sets.

What can I do,
To help me survive.
I don’t want to,
Live my life through a lie.

The only way to not,
End up here.
Is to be unlike us,
And all the Jews sitting near.

Social Studies Question

“Thinking about all your learnt and read about the Holocaust...... How does a democratic and just society turn to one of hate and genocide? Write a paragraph or two explaining your thoughts.”

Hate and genocide surrounds everyone, where ever you may go. It comes in many different forms but they all have similarities. Take a high school for example, there are many cliques in a school and a distinguished popular crowd that most people look up to and want to be in. The people in that crowd therefore have highest power, they have the power to make anyone hated or bullied or disliked. Anyone wanting to be in that popular group and be accepted by them will tend to agree to whatever opinion anyone in that group may have. It just takes one person of high power to turn people against each other and create a society of hate and genocide.

The same thing happened in World War II, all it took was one person with high power and the world broke into a war, a major war filled with hate and genocide. Comparing a high school to one of the biggest wars our world has seen may seem odd but when you think about it, the ways that Hitler made people turn on the Jews is the same as any popular girl or boy makes their classmates turn on a selected person.

Power is a huge responsibility and when someone uses that power to turn a society to one of hate, well that defeats the purpose. So remember the happenings of WWII, remember how easy it was to wreck a society, and try to keep it from happening again.

Human Rights Violated