Responding to Poem

Holocaust
by Barbara Sonek

We played, we laughed
we were loved.
We were ripped from the arms of our
parents and thrown into the fire.
We were nothing more than children.
We had a future. We were going to be lawyers, rabbis, wives, teachers, mothers. We had dreams, then we had no hope. We were taken away in the dead of night like cattle in cars, no air to breathe smothering, crying, starving, dying. Separated from the world to be no more. From the ashes, hear our plea. This atrocity to mankind can not happen again. Remember us, 
for we were the children whose dreams and lives were stolen away.




1. Construct a response to this poem using the same style and structure.


2. Be mindful of your perspective. Your poem should be from your perspective.


3. Utilise the same techniques employed by the authour.




We know, we feel, we love.
You were torn, thrown and worked.
You were brave, honorable, courageous. 
You ripped and thrown like animals, cattle in cars.
It was not in vain
We remember
We always will
You had dreams like us
You loved like us
You were, just like us
You were separated
No chance 
No hope 
No life
You should not have had hope but you did
You shouldn't have loved but you did
This atrocity cannot happen again.
We will remember you
We know, we feel, we love