Death Poem by Karen TeichCluster

Your sting seeks us, everywhere;
Our names....our faith.
In desperate nightmares we hide,
Yet still you come.
With lying words,
In fog, in pain,
In legions.

We've turned our cheeks,
Time, and time again.
we seek not your sweet release;
For you have none.
With our faith
We beg,
Save us......
Your name swallows man's souls
And spits them out
With no mercy.

Turn away, Death.
Take your mysterious misery and go.
No answers come now...or ever.
For there are none.
Your hand grips millions,
Ceasing our breath.
Yet still we are one,
In name or in death,
You have found us.

(In Memory of the Holocaust Victims)
(5-29-06)