If someone had helped...

If someone helped out...

Written by Alina A, from Dallas Texas, when she was 14 and in grade 8.
She wrote it after meeting a Holocuast survivor, and reading Anne Frank.

Dark eyes full of fright,

On this cold and freezing night,

Being transported in a box car,
Being taken away very far,

Being held in a concentration camp,
Sitting nice and quiet and very damp,

Staying there all alone,
Not moving a muscle nor a bone,

Listening to the roars and cries,
And saying out last good-byes,

My heart was on fire,
Knowing that we were being trapped with barbed wire,

For never we had eaten,
Just kept being beaten,

Listening to the soldiers munch,
Rotating their duties bunch by bunch,

Listening to their words roar out hate,
Believing we would escape and that would be fate,

Listening to the restless who screamed,
Dreaming about their bodies being redeemed, 

To save our lives, we pray,
And our bodies struggle to get stronger day after day,

If only someone would have helped out,
None of this would have came about,

If someone would have turned their back,
The number of deaths would lack,

More people would have stayed living, 
Because the saviors were so giving,

All the rules Hitler made would be abolished
And we would have some new ones that would be nice and polished,

There would be less prejudice today,
And more people would get along day by day,

Self-esteem would grow higher and higher,
If only Hitler just would not have been an unfaithful liar,

World War II would have never taken place,
If someone just would have helped out in this case.

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