poetry after auschwitz

dear adorno

of the sad gaze

declaring the sentence

for an age

your time

1903-1969

was not special

in evil

except to you

for you lived it

if there could not be

put barbaric poetry

after the gas chambers

after the ash

there could have

never been but barbaric poetry

in the first place

for human history

is a tale

written in blood

by each generation

in it's turn

& the suffering of

each individual

is of equal importance

whether they died

in the centre of europe

or not

& all are

equally forgotten

as the great wheel

of time grinds

memories

into dust

14.05.2015