They say it never happened.
Can't see it- it's not real.
I was never taken from my mom,
My dad, my brothers, my sister.
I was never headed on a train
Destination unknown.
Never starved, never beaten
Never cried until there was
No fluid left for tears.
I was never judged because I was different.
Never forced to wear a yellow star,
To give up my bicycyle, to become a number.
I was never changed into a cold hard
Shell of a human.
I never lost my identity.
I was never tossed into a room full of gas
Never piled atop others, naked like myself.
Never just a piece of rotting flesh,
A pile of bones in unmarked graves.
I was never there, never felt it.
They say it never happened.
Therefore it never was.