• I still remember the world,
    through the eyes of a child.
    The only eyes I ever saw with.
    Time has blurred the years,
    but I still remember.
    I didn't know the year...
    I was young...
    But the big, black eagle,
    and gold, black and red became
    a big, boxy spider,
    and red, white, and black.
    I never liked that spider,
    it scared me,
    and it scared my friends.
    They had to wear stars
    yellow stars, with a single word.
    The stars said "Jew" but in
    a language I could not read.
    And then they were taken away,
    all my friends vanished as I watched.
    Then I was taken.
    But... I wasn't a Jew,
    or a gypsy, or sick.
    I just "looked wrong"
    What did that mean?
    I had black hair... it should have been blonde
    I had green eyes... they should have been blue
    I had freckles... they weren't called angel kisses
    And so I vanished, too...