POETRY

Who is Reinhold Hanning?

June 17, 2016

really, they are mostly normal

people​​ like you and me

young and idealistic

​​ adventurous

thinking about their time

on earth

assuming they had a future

to seek

loving their family and​​ 

wondering how to

pay​​ 

the mortgage or

how to

stop that leak

in the porch roof.

just normal human beings, really

that needed a job

and took one

finding out a little too late

that there​​ were​​ requirements

beyond what they had​​ 

thought or was it just

their imagination​​ that

people were being harmed

don’t​​ act​​ hastily because

maybe they needed to be

maybe, possibly ​​ it was the

right thing to do

compromising just a little

here and there

bending their moral code

until they found themselves

too deep to grab a handle

and step out of the​​ quicksand

and step away from the​​ 

killing camps and the burning ovens

just part of​​ a​​ day’s work

just part of fitting in

just part of getting along

really, they were mostly normal

people.

think about it.

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