Movie Star

Holocaust-themed poem.

She had wanted to be a movie star
Ever since she could talk.

With her pale skin and pitch black hair,
She was destined for the big screen.

But around 1940,
Her dreams began to fall.

"You can't be a movie star!" they growled.
"You're a menace to society, you JEW!"

Her head was low and her dark eyes blank
As they led her to the train.

The cattle cars were full of souls,
their dreams as crushed as hers.

Dachau's sign read "Work makes you free."
She'd heard of this place.

But only the faces behind the fence could see-
This pretty little girl would never be the kind of star she wanted to be.

Years later
And thousands of souls lost,

Behind this sign that read "Work makes you free"
An American soldier with a movie camera

Came to record the heaps of naked bodies-
Their lifeless mouths frozen in screams.

His camera stopped on a little girl, her eyes wide open,
But her life wrenched away.

She was a movie star now,
On camera for the first time.

She was a movie star now-
But not the kind she'd wanted

To be...