While night follows day
Echoes of wailing
Never-ending tears
Despair of the broken
Etched through the years
What hope for tomorrow
For those who were left
Cruel haunting memories
A future bereft
How can the sun rise
The days turn to nights
Spring become summer
And birds still take flight?
Through appetite stunted
Yet hunger still came
Music was written
And love felt again
We’re born to feel love
To feel hunger, to feel
And all that’s been suffered
Time slowly may heal
Though never forgotten
The years that have gone
While night follows day
Life has to go on
©Judy Karbritz
A poem written by Judy Karbritz and shared with Headstone Manor & Museum to remember those who survived the Holocaust and subsequent genocides. The theme for 2022 is, One Day. As stated on the official website for Holocaust Memorial Day, “We learn more about the past, we empathise with others today, and we take action for a better future.” – click here for more information and resources.
Headstone Manor & Museum would like to thank Judy Karbritz for sharing her poem with us. Judy Karbritz is ‘Harrow’s Community Poet’ and ‘Co-founder of the Jewish Poetry Society’. Email: jps.society@yahoo.com
