Auschwitz

Absent from the trains
Not there on my arrival
Absent from the chambers
When I called upon the bible

Absent from the ovens
Where burning flesh did smell
Where God could make no heaven
But man did make a hell

Absent from the Chimneys

That took me to the Sky
And floating on the breeze
I saw no God on high

So here I lie at Auschwitz
My ashes bless the ground
60 years at Auschwitz
And still no God I’ve found

Steve D

May 2013