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holocaust i can't quite remember where we are your face is veiled by a shroud of ashes camouflaged with gray by the snow crimson lining your soft lashes which brush against my hollow cheekbones luscious only by means of finger-pricked blood slip your frozen glove into my velvet palm draw closer i melt the ice from your lifeless skin with my embrace close your eyes if ravens can escape the barbed wire boundaries then so shall we there is a lullaby mama used to beckon us to sleep with though i can't remember the words i can hum its melody and protect you from the ovens i clutch you encircling your skeleton to protect your bones i trace the numbers engraved into our forearms so we will never forget never forget how they jerked you from our haven dragging you across our mattress of ragged clothes i cling to you, so tightly my hands intertwined deep in the folds of your shirt the striped scars of the prison children you scream my name though i can't quite remember what it was and nestled safely if but a moment in my arms i gather your limbs, trembling i press you tight against my bosom but they tear you from me i kneel in a puddle of tears Aski Paetrie! though i can't quite remember what it meant lying, with their bootheels stomping my face grinding me into the earth like some species of vermin they killed me unconscious later, aroused from my slumber, shivering i stand to face their guns my lips part to welcome their bullets |
