The Mountians Past Birkenau

You can see the mountains from Birkenau.

How odd is that?

That if you look up,

And look out,

You can see the mountains

From the barracks of death.

If you're standing outside

Of the barrack that housed women

Awaiting the gas chambers,

You can see the mountains.

There seems to be

Something fundamentally wrong

With looking past the atrocity

To see the beauty.

How can it be,

That you can see the mountains from Birkenau?

07/18/23