Dr. phil. Milena Rampoldi – ProMosaik e.V.

Pfennig Postcard, Wrong Address
by Michael R. Burch

We saw their pictures:
tortured out of our imaginations
like golems.

We could not believe
in their frail extremities
or their gaunt faces,
pallid as our disbelief.

They are not
with us now . . .

We have:
huddled them
into the backrooms of conscience,
consigned them
to the ovens of silence,
buried them in the mass graves
of circumstances beyond our control.

We have
so little left
of them
now
to remind us …