Who Mourns for Half a Million
(Holocaust Remembrance Day)
Greed waits them out
Holocaust survivors, remnant
Of genocide
A gift of ghosts to generations
They die in need
Imprisoned yet in holding cells
Of systems
That will not return
Them to earthly life
In receiving of their own
the forty-seven nations signing the Terezin Declaration (2009) are Albania, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malta, Moldova, Montenegro, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, the United States, and Uruguay
clcouch123 
May 6, 2016 at 7:21 am
A hauntingly well-written poem. With utmost simplicity you let us take a peak on the ghosts and dark truths of this world event.
Incidentally, I just started another historical fiction about Holocaust. This time it’s The Nightingale.
May 6, 2016 at 3:33 pm
Bless you, Rosema, for writing about this, too. As haunting as you know this is, I look forward to reading what you craft.