Why

Why

~Inspired by the prisoners of the Holocaust death camps~


Why don’t they come
To steal us away
From all this turmoil and decay

Why don’t they come
To save us all
We don’t deserve this; to walk the devil’s hall

Why don’t they come
To witness despair
For sure I’d thought they’d soon be there

Why don’t they come
To see our faces
They’ll soon disappear without any traces

Why don’t they come
To see us work
I’m watching for them; where they may lurk

Why don’t they come
To watch the children
Be killed for not their own sin

Why don’t they come
To split our rations
To unite our own slimming nation

Why don’t they come
To aid in our fight
Or to let loose their venomous bite

Why don’t they come
To let us know
That their cowardly faces will never show

Why don’t they comes
To see family and friends
Be killed and buried; at their life’s end

Why don’t they come
To see us in rags
Watching our smiles begin to sag

Why don’t they come
To let us live
Won’t they let us survive, won’t they give

Why don’t they come
I’ll tell you now
I will live, I will survive
But I can’t tell you how.