Shawn L. Bird

Original poetry, commentary, and fiction. All copyrights reserved.

poem-offering March 23, 2014

Filed under: Poetry — Shawn L. Bird @ 12:33 am
Tags: , ,

In Latin

holocaustum

means ‘burnt offering.’

In World War 2

the Nazis offered

six million souls

to what god?

What appeasement

did they think

they were buying

at such a cost?

There can be no

atonement with

an artificial

sacrifice.