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Peter Van Pels

May 29, 2016
By MarieEsther PLATINUM, Miami, Florida
MarieEsther PLATINUM, Miami, Florida
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In the room where your father used to dance with you

We hide in tatters

Your lips so dry

With fear,

But this is not the time for tears

 

You felt me

And we kissed

As the bombs tore Holland

Apart


The author's comments:

This poem was inspired by Peter Van Pels, who died May 5, 1945, in Mauthausen Concentration Camp in Austra.


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