Take me down

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)