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Breathing the Enemy
May 14, 2015
A child screams,
the train rattles like bones on a cold day.
Heard is a chilling bang,
as loud as thunder.
Echoing within me,
throughout my hollowed soul.
I hear and feel nothing.
The dogs have achieved their goal.
I have lost my soul,
no longer am I living.
I am breathing,
although I’m dead inside.
Once, I waited for help,
pushing for survival.
Reality settled like a rock,
in the pit of my stomach,
along with my hope.
My country is under attack,
from all its sides.
My country is attacking me,
but why am I the enemy?
© Claire V., Lubbock, TX
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The idea behind this poem was how war affects civilians, the setting of this poem is during World War 2, when the Soviet Union was rounding up Lithuanians, into cattle cars, much like what Hitler did during the Holocaust.