Holocaust

Holocaust
Six million of God’s children
Crushed under black booted feet
Crushed under jack booted feet
Maimed, beaten, tortured
Then forced into a fatal shower
The tyrant gloated in his power

Men, women, little children
Babies torn from mother’s breasts
Bones of all smashed to dust
Soft flesh, body fat rendered
Into a bitter soap
Gold capped, gleaming teeth
Torn from screaming mouths

Six million of God’s children
Cry out from forgotten graves
Cry out to be remembered
Cry to makes us feel ashamed
Cry to make us promise
That this evil thing
This curse of upon humanity
Will never take place again

Six million of God’s children
Crammed in to box cars
Crammed in by the thousands
Six million of God’s children
Jammed against each other
Jammed so tight they could not breathe

The great cities of Europe
Emptied of Judea’s children
They were taken to the camps of fear
Taken to be broken
Taken to be tortured
Taken to the chamber of death

We who now live must remember
What bigotry and oppression do
Because the next time we let a tyrant
Crush the weak beneath his heels
It might be us instead of the Jew
Who are hauled away in heavy chains
And put to a bitter, painful death

Six million of God’s children
Crushed under black booted feet
Crushed under jack booted feet
Maimed, beaten, tortured
Then forced into a fatal shower
The tyrant gloated in his power