Six Candles (Yom Hashoah)

Six candles slowly flicker,
small flames pierce the dark.
Today we remember
six million who died,
innocent, lonely scared.

It has been over sixty years.
Time slowly fades the memories
of those terrible days,
but some never forget.
For them we light candles.

We remember those that suffered,
those that fought,
those that fell.
Six million murdered;
families wiped away.

Six candles slowly flicker
for lives snuffed out;
lawyers, rabbis, wives, teachers, mothers.
Dreams. Hope.
Six million, destroyed.

In the dead of night,
like cattle into cars,
smothering, crying, starving, dying,
separated from the world;
six million; dust, ashes.

Six decades worth of tears,
Time slowly fades memories
and sharp pains become blunted.
Over six million lost.
For them we light candles.

Six candles to commemorate
six million Jews exterminated.
Remember the children,
whose dreams and lives were stolen away.
Let us never forget the lost.

Let us never forget.