Showing posts with label Budapest. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Budapest. Show all posts
Monday, August 31, 2009
Budapest Walks - Midnight Blue
We embrace in the dusk,
water-shimmered patterns flowing
beneath us.
As together we walk the length of a bridge
toward the flotilla.
Cutting downriver in the dying day,
a history of souls,
swimming in dark waters.
We embrace again,
the Danube floating us silently,
so silently,
nearer home.
water-shimmered patterns flowing
beneath us.
As together we walk the length of a bridge
toward the flotilla.
Cutting downriver in the dying day,
a history of souls,
swimming in dark waters.
We embrace again,
the Danube floating us silently,
so silently,
nearer home.
Saturday, August 29, 2009
Thursday, August 20, 2009
Budapest Walks - The Horror
Five hundred and fifty thousand souls walked ...
The heat pursues our steps toward the mausoleum still of the Holocaust Museum. Five hundred and fifty thousand souls walk this way too. A silent procession. They have names, you know ... I read one on the glass-framed chair at the exit of the empty Synagogue room. Her name was Susa, she was seven, and she stood no chance.
Stripped of rights, stripped of assets, stripped of dignity ... stripped of life. We stand in the penultimate room, trembling as the images flash before us. And then the ghostly sound of Zycklon B released.
Why?
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