Remember

Remember you let it happen
when they break though my door
Remember you let it happen
when they drag me out by my hair
across the wet grass and concrete
and sit on my back to shackle me
Remember you let it happen
so you could watch Strange New Worlds and Andor
you would like to think you’re helpless
there was nothing you could do
the Germans thought that, too

Remember you let it happen,
many years from now
when I have spent every day
shifting between hunger and torture
when I was raped
by guards or someone off their meds
Remember you let it happen
when my shell, my body, is thrown
into a mass grave
they think they are concealing the evidence,
but there is no need
the Americans were so festive with greed
they turned away, knowing full well
we would live in hell
you let it happen
it was not the circumstance
it was you
And I know who you are
I will return
In your collective conscience
or Spirit
I choose not to be silent