Felicja
Felicja - (1923-2011)
By Fred Rothzeid
She did not talk about it
What the teenage girl was thinking
In that time of madness
As horror became the norm
The world of family and friends
Who loved and welcomed her was lost
To bombs, gas, bullets and starvation
Disappearing into a then nameless void
How did she feel about her good fortune
For in the perverse accounting of the time
She had survived
While those around her perished
The journey home was not a homecoming
That world had adjusted to her absence
Making her an unwanted reminder
She would not be allowed to become an inconvenience
And always there was necessity
So much to be done
To live with little time to mourn
To plan and not dwell upon the past
And yet she persevered
Against the forces of despair
She created a life in Poland
And then in the United States
My wife’s mother died recently
As nature would have it
But near the end of a long life
She chose not to remain silent
And the world gained another voice
So that her children’s children would remember
When she could no longer be there
A survivor and witness to the horror
A testament to the spirit that endures
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