I Didn't Do Enough - A Tribute Poem
I write these words late on Tuesday night, as Yom HaShoah draws to a close. On this day, we remember. On this day, we promise to never forget. On this day, we remind ourselves of the horrors of the last generation, silently praying for peace and premising ourselves, that WE WON'T FORGET. It is on this day, that I was reminded of a poem I wrote sometime in the summer of last year. Inspired by the heartbreaking scene in the movie "Schindler's List" where as the war finally draws to a close, every one of his workers whom he Oskar Schindler saved, wrote him a letter, in which they explain everything. It is a letter meant for him to show to the appropriate authorities, in case he would be captured. After that, one of his most trusted workers and friends gives him a ring with the Talmudic phrase "Whoever saves one life saves the world entire" engraved on it. Touched, Schindler shakes the workers' hand and whispers to him that he could have got more Jews out o...