Silent Consent (For R.W.B. For Granting Poetic License) Poem by Martin Patrick McCarthy

The Great Dictator made the Fatherland great
With a strong regimen of violence and hate.
Speer builds, Goebbels lies
And all around, the Jew dies.
Bismarck's legacy falls to the violent
Because men like me were silent.
Silence and tears
Sum all my years.

The Jew is dead, as dead as Death,
The Great Highwayman robbed him of breath.
I wear the Rosen's hair-shirt, my damnation eternal;
Restless eternal in my silence, I would not fight.
Only sleep the eternal
In an eternal night.

(13 April 1997)