A tidy euphemism denotes
Flotsam of ships of state
Left as a tide of blood recedes
The savage Twentieth
A century of refugees
Displaced millions
The blood first rose
As the Great War sundered old Empires
To redraw Europe and the Levant
Belgians, Poles, Latvians, Serbs
Turks, Armenians, Arabs, Kurds
And Jews
Everywhere Jews
Always Jews
In the next war great waves crashed
Across the Bloodlands of the East
Belarus, Baltics, Ukraine and Russia
Hitler and Stalin clashed and slaughtered
A Final Solution for some
Death without name for others
For millions who lived, an uprooting
Germans, Russians, UkrainianCzechs, Poles, Hungarians
And again Jews
Always Jews
People without homes
Homes without people
Wanderers to this day
Carney is co-editor of Kol Emunah Print edition. He can be regularly seen at Shomrei at Sunday Minyan, Mitzvah of the Week Class, Hebrew Language Class and the Israel Cinema Cafe.
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