Tenderness

JEWS OUT was your simple answer
To our complicated struggle.
How sad for them to be born different
How unforgivable they were not ashamed
Of spoiling your sweet order.

A poisoned faith enslaved your mind
Fed by hating anything
Worse or better than you.
Humanity is flesh and blood
But you trusted a cross of iron
Because it promised you'd be forever strong
And never break down and weep
For the passing away of tenderness.

© 1996 Michael Aidulis all rights reserved


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