Lexi's Poetry Challenge

Sea Of Faces
Dedicated to the Survivors of the Holocaust

How I yearn
to close my eyes
as I swim through
The Sea of Faces;
I’m lost within
this misty mind-
my life
isn’t mine this time.

You stripped me of my humanity-
You deprived me of my soul;
My eyes of faith are torn away-
This torture’s taking its toll.

While my eternity
sizzles by,
I dwell each minute
in Hell’s black sky.

My life does not matter.
My kingdom has no point.
To my family
I do not anoint.

The curse of my family’s blood
shall always be on my mind,
and through my eternal travels,
a cure I’ll not find.

It will pierce my thoughts
and sear my brain-
I only pray
that I can live my life sane.

Only through your word
and the things that you sought;
The pain and the sorrow-
These things you have brought
shall burn also in you
and of this I shall say-
Till the time that you die,
for this deed,
you will pay.

You always holler and poke at me.
The wind screams in my ears;
You burn away my reality-
My sorrow escapes in my tears.

I may not understand now,
and perhaps I’ll never know why,
but one thing that I will always hear
is the piercing sound of my family’s cry.

As I swim
to the surface of the sea,
I see the faces
of anguish and misery.

Pulling myself out,
I am torn apart-
You have crushed
what’s left of my heart;
I ask the question-
“When will this cruel war be over?”
as I look back one last time
in the Sea of Faces.

Written by: Jessica Nicole Brooks