“Shoes on the Danube Promenade”

Jews in Budapest

(doing what they thought best)

stepped on the bank

of the blue Danube.

Assassins yelled

“Remove your shoes!” —

then BANG!

shot them dead…

60 pair of iron shoes

waiting

at river’s bank,

an empty ghost-filled crowd.

Standing still

after war-torn souls

stepped into Eternity,

leaving their footprints behind.

Copyright 2020

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