{"id":1971,"date":"2015-06-24T21:00:07","date_gmt":"2015-06-24T21:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=1971"},"modified":"2015-06-24T21:01:07","modified_gmt":"2015-06-24T21:01:07","slug":"this-is-what-death-looks-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/this-is-what-death-looks-like\/","title":{"rendered":"This Is What Death Looks Like"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&quot;This Is What Death Looks Like&quot; - Holocaust \/ Shoah Poem\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/m4QlmQXway0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The wild stare as his last breath<br \/>\nHis weakened lungs struggled to make<br \/>\nA gaping mouth as to breath<br \/>\nHe tries, his last breath does take<\/p>\n<p>Victim of savagery<br \/>\nThey lost all they owned and had<br \/>\nOthers thought them sub-human<br \/>\nIn an age so wild and mad.<\/p>\n<p>How men look to fellow man<br \/>\nAnd think of himself so great<br \/>\nThat he has the right to kill<br \/>\nThe other man he does hate?<\/p>\n<p>This is what hate it looks like<br \/>\nThis it is its consequence<br \/>\nFor all men in time will die:<br \/>\nBut these deaths: they make no sense<\/p>\n<p>Armenia and Namibia<br \/>\nThey of holocaust knew too<br \/>\nAnd in years before the war<br \/>\nOf the things mankind can do.<\/p>\n<p>This is but one of millions<br \/>\nOf victims in war who died<br \/>\nInnocents in the conflicts<br \/>\nWho to just survive they tried<\/p>\n<p>But they were not combatants<br \/>\nIn the wars fierce fighting caught<br \/>\nBut they selected for their blood<br \/>\nOthers said that die they aught.<\/p>\n<p>The more that mankind they learn<br \/>\nThe less man he seems to know<br \/>\nIt could again tomorrow<br \/>\nWhat happened not long ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The wild stare as his last breath His weakened lungs struggled to make A gaping mouth as to breath He tries, his last breath does take Victim of savagery They lost all they owned and had Others thought them sub-human In an age so wild and mad. How men look &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[463,6],"tags":[2354,469,1595,2153,2152,336],"class_list":["post-1971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shoa-the-holocaust","category-video-poetry","tag-death","tag-holocaust","tag-murder","tag-second-world-war","tag-shoah","tag-war-2","column","twocol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-vN","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":292,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/we-all-walk-the-same-road\/","url_meta":{"origin":1971,"position":0},"title":"We All Walk the Same Road","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"15th June 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"April 8th is the International Day of Roma, and the day we remember the Romany victims of the holocaust.Though thankfully things are not as bad today, there still is a lot of hatred against them, which has risen since the fall of communism. 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