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VxPoem ID: 13489
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personal_life
Posted: June 12th. 2005 1:57:36 PM
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Letter to Anne Frank
by Lady Isadora
Age Group: Adult
Dear Anne, I thought of you today
It's the twelfth of June, the date when on
Your thirteenth birthday
You began the famous diary
That millions now have read
And I find it hard to think of you as dead.
As I went out walking in the bright sunshine
I was thinking of your years in hiding
In the House Behind
All the things I take for granted
Were like luxuries to you
Pens and paper, books to read
And enough food.
And the ghostly smoke still lingers
Over European skies
In my dreams I smell the burning flesh
And I hear the desperate cries
Are the murderers in uniform
Or sitting smugly in church pews?
And the victims: are they Witches?
Are they Jews?
Dear Anne, what must you have endured?
When I try to count your sacrifice
I cannot find the words
Now the whole world lies before me
I have health and strength and youth
And I've sworn to live for magic
And for Truth.
Dear Anne, you were dark and I am fair
Worlds apart in many ways and yet
So many things we share
Though you wore a yellow star
And I wear a pentacle
In the mind and heart
We're really much the same
And may She who made us both
Thrice bless your name!
Copyright 1990 by Lady Isadora
Author's Notes: These words ended up as song lyrics on my music album *Priestess of the Pentacle*, now being re-released on CD, but started out as a poem. Anne was one of my beloved "patron saints" of writing as a girl, in so far as a Jew can ever be a "saint" to a Witch!
I'll let the poem speak for itself, so will only add that I offer it here in Anne's memory this 12th of June, 2005, on what would have been her 76th birthday-- with much love and admiration for her wise, bright, eternally enduring spirit. Anne died of typhus in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in March 1945, one month before its liberation by the Allies.
To listen to an MP3 sample of the song version, please visit my website via Author's Profile link below.
Author's Location: Des Moines, Iowa
More Poems: Lady Isadora has posted 4 additional poems- View them?
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