Lilly's Stories

This poem is inspired by the painting, “A Young Boy from Belsen Concentration Camp”, by Eric Taylor, 1945

A gaze cast down upon the floor,
Neither soul nor body fed enough,
But yet the spirit is not poor,
Although the body treated rough.

The boy, though young, can see no light,
His face matured beyond his years.
Yet with his will and with his might,
he conquers evil through his tears.

Forced to skip those golden years 
and face the world before his time,
He stumbles, still, through all his fears,
and carries the weight of another's crime.