A Survivors Tale Part 2 - What Is This Freedom?
As many of you know this Friday is Remembrance Day, the day that the nation observes a minutes silence to remember those soldiers who lost their lives while defending their country during the Second World War. It is a special opportunity for all of us to grab, as it is away to show our respect to these soldiers, whose courage and bravery, was truly, truly amazing. They went out to battle the forces of evil, only with the safety of their fellow citizens on their minds. They are heroes to so many still today and so they should be.
In honor of Remembrance Day, I wish to share with you a poem I wrote about a elderly survivor of the war, who struggles to adapt to the world after losing everything. He has survived physically, yes, but the emotional toll the war has taken on him, bares wounds to deep for healing. His striking question he asks, "What is this freedom, when I cannot be freed", is a glimpse at how torn and broken he is. I wanted to try as hard as I can to not write "just another war poem", but to really choose my words and hope they posses the correct meaning.
May we soon see no more suffering as we prepare to rush in the era of our Final Redemption,
Moshiach NOW!
Yitzy Schweitzer
In honor of Remembrance Day, I wish to share with you a poem I wrote about a elderly survivor of the war, who struggles to adapt to the world after losing everything. He has survived physically, yes, but the emotional toll the war has taken on him, bares wounds to deep for healing. His striking question he asks, "What is this freedom, when I cannot be freed", is a glimpse at how torn and broken he is. I wanted to try as hard as I can to not write "just another war poem", but to really choose my words and hope they posses the correct meaning.
May we soon see no more suffering as we prepare to rush in the era of our Final Redemption,
Moshiach NOW!
Yitzy Schweitzer
A Survivors Tale Part 2 - What Is This Freedom?
The gates finally open and I can finally walk away from this place
But although I take these steps, I can’t seem to be rid of the pain
Haunted nights, broken hearts, piercing screams and shattered glass
Why is my future drowned out by the waves of my past
I wake up every day,
Screaming at the horrors to rush away,
But they don’t seem to listen and so they stay,
Keeping me awake
Tell me what is this freedom, when I cannot be freed,
Can’t find calm, I have not met peace,
And I’m a prisoner,
Of my own terrors?
Tell me what is this life that I am living,
Loneliness, is all I have been given,
And it seems,
That there is no reason to dream
Going day by day, never noticing the skies change,
My eyes tell the story too difficult for me to explain
Everything of mine was taken and it left me with nothing to live for,
I spent every second hoping, this nightmare scare me no more
But every second it dragged on
Felt like an eternity far too long
Left me wondering, what had I done wrong,
To feel like I don’t belong
Tell me what is this freedom, when I cannot be freed,
Can’t find calm, I have not met peace,
And I’m a prisoner,
Of my own terrors?
Tell me what is this life that I am living,
Loneliness, is all I have been given,
And it seems,
That there is no reason to dream
The gates finally open and I can finally walk away from this place
But although I take these steps, I can’t seem to be rid of the pain
Haunted nights, broken hearts, piercing screams and shattered glass
Why is my future drowned out by the waves of my past
I wake up every day,
Screaming at the horrors to rush away,
But they don’t seem to listen and so they stay,
Keeping me awake
Tell me what is this freedom, when I cannot be freed,
Can’t find calm, I have not met peace,
And I’m a prisoner,
Of my own terrors?
Tell me what is this life that I am living,
Loneliness, is all I have been given,
And it seems,
That there is no reason to dream
Going day by day, never noticing the skies change,
My eyes tell the story too difficult for me to explain
Everything of mine was taken and it left me with nothing to live for,
I spent every second hoping, this nightmare scare me no more
But every second it dragged on
Felt like an eternity far too long
Left me wondering, what had I done wrong,
To feel like I don’t belong
Tell me what is this freedom, when I cannot be freed,
Can’t find calm, I have not met peace,
And I’m a prisoner,
Of my own terrors?
Tell me what is this life that I am living,
Loneliness, is all I have been given,
And it seems,
That there is no reason to dream
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