Into The Night

By Jennie Walter

6th Grade Park Forest Middle School Teacher: Mr. Tranell

Into The Night

The darkeness fills the earth. Our dazzling sun has gone down, A faint cry of a mother giving birth, But no Jew is left to hear in this German town.

Trains are boarded; crowded, musty, and damp, Mothers, fathers, sisters and brothers are all parted, All ages of Jews march off to Nazi camps, All through the night, the transportation has started.

Each Jew alive has become a number and given to a block, Please hear our cried of frustrtation, Horror, death and darkness; it tolls one o’clock, Do you hear the frantic cries of desperation?

O gentle night and faithful stars please return, Please hide me from the hostile light, There is no warmth, only those that burn, Oh, please come back pleasant dreams and peaceful night!

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