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Child of the Free

February 20, 2012
By xAimeexRose BRONZE, Delano, Minnesota
xAimeexRose BRONZE, Delano, Minnesota
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Favorite Quote:
"People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self centered; Forgive them anyway. If you are kind, People may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives; Be kind anyway. If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies; Succeed anyway. If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you; Be honest and frank anyway. What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight; Build anyway. If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous; Be happy anyway. The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow; Do good anyway. Give the world the best you have, at it may never be enough; Give the world the best you've anyway. You see, in the final analysis it is between you and God; It was never between you and them anyway"


My mother used to tell me that
You were once strong.
The epitome of what a nation should be,
And we would be free.
We would be free.
She saw it as a provisional childhood
For my younger sister and I.
And temporary it was.
My father’s pockets didn’t save us,
My mother’s cries didn’t save us,
How could we be free?
How could we be free?
We were brought away from our home,
Though we did not bring much.
We were not given much.
I grew used to seeing my friends
Lying face down on the streets.
When will we be free?
When will we be free?
I was ten years old,
Barely livable,
When I fluttered away.
Now I am
Free.


The author's comments:
This piece was written as a memoir of a child of the holocaust. About a child who really lived and died in the war's hands. May we remember all the children of the holocaust.

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