Gatazps

The Butterfly
The last, the very last,
So richly, brightly, dazzlingly yellow.
Perhaps if the sun's tears would sing
against a white stone.

Such, such a yellow
Is carried lightly way uphigh.
It went away I'm sure because it wished to
kiss the world good-bye.

For seven weeks I've lived in here,
Penned up inside this ghetto.
But I have found what I love here.
The dandelionscall to me
And the white chestnut branches in the court.
Only I never saw another butterfly.

That butterfly was the last one.
Butterflies don't live here,
in the ghetto.

Terezín
The heaviestwheel rolls across our foreheads
To bury itself deep somewhere
inside our memories.
We've suffered here more than enough,
Here in this clot of grief and shame,
Wanting a badge of blindness
To bea proof for their own children.
A fourth year of waiting, like standing above a swamp
From which any moment might gush forth a spring.
Meanwhile, the rivers flow another way,
Another way,
Notletting you die, not letting you live.
And the cannons don't scream and the guns don't bark
And you don't see blood here.
Nothing, only silent hunger.
Children steal the bread here and ask and askand ask
And all would wish to sleep, keep silent, and
just go to sleep again...
The heaviest wheel rolls across our foreheads
To bury itself deep somewhere inside our memories


This two poems,have a lot in common, starting, with the Nazi occupation, the difference, is, that Terezin, and the Ghetto, are very different places. They are also, both sad poems, because they reflejates thesadness, of both places, in the ghetto, and in the concentration camp, they both, reflejates the hunger, and the death, and they symbolize with objects, as food, guns, and a butterfly the horrible place itis, and the place it was, where the people, was happy, and they where prosperous. All this could be the comparison, of both poems, the children, lived in Terezin, didn´t lived good, It was a...