Paul Warren Poems

In the north of South Australia in the Outback
Two geologists were driving on a dusty track
One was going west and one was going east
The track was battered and was a beast
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The night is long, hard and cruel
With each tasking outside the rule
The hours go on in a slow lament
As they bleed into each other and are spent
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Can you wipe it away
All those things you think today
Start fresh in your way
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Witold Pilecki was a Polish Calvary Officer in the Second World War
Who founded the Secret Polish Army fighting the Nazis knowing the score
In 1942 he decided the Auschwitz concentration camp needed to be found out
So he made sure that he was taken as a worker by the SS in their sweeps about
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Eduard Schulte was a German Industrialist during the Second World War
And was a secret opponent of Hitler and the Nazis wanting to do more
In his business he travelled from Breslau in Silesia and Zurich in Switzerland
And made contact with Gerhart Riegner of the World Jewish Congress in his plan
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I once met a person who told me
That we had race memories that we could see
All of the experience our ancestors had
Were locked in a collective memory good and bad
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I was speaking with a fellow SA police officer who looked back
When working with aborigine police aides in the Outback
He said one day on an extended patrol away from base
An aborigine police aide came to him in a state of wide eyed grace
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There are people that you connect with straight away
That is more than emotion and you want them to stay
As soon as you see them you know it's for the best
And you would like to together face the hardest test
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Courage is not easy
You will know when it's needed
Not only when guns boom
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It had been a terrible mistake he made
Driving from the the farm house glade
There had been a barbecue and drinking too
More than he should have wanted to do
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