Take me down
October 15, 2006
Take med down, its time to do it.
Did I think I could go through with
the pains that millions have known?
Dachau, Buchenwald and Belsen,
where was I and where salvation?
Take med down.
Humankind betrayed me,
god and devil have both left me,
so take me now away.
The last scrawny jews have said
much more about the dead
than I could ever say
Take med down it matters little,
the lance-wound and the spittle
a crown of thorns is all I’ve known.
But a child cried out in vain
helpless heart in fear and pain
in poison gas. So take me down.
Take me down. I wasn’t there.
The childrens eyes so full of fear.
The mother crying out for me.
Crush my cross that never could
save them even if I would.
So take med down and set them free.
~Inger Hagerup
(Translated with apologies by Skink)
