Posted On
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
In remembrance of the Holocaust, Keyur Thakkur, a student in Ms. Braverman's 8th grade class wrote a beautiful and poignant poem.
My Heart Has Been Raped
by Keyur Thakkur
I was just sitting when they came.
They took my family away.
My mom couldn't walk
So she couldn't work.
When they shot her
My heart had been raped.
They took me on the train
With millions of people.
They trampled my brother
He lay dead on the floor
My heart had been raped.
We got to the camp
They made me go alone
Without my dad.
They took my sister
She was too little.
I am 15 years old
And my heart had been raped.
At the end I was the only one left
I didn't eat
I got too weak
I couldn't work
They wanted to kill me
But I was already dead on the inside
Because my heart had been raped.
