Dark Flames

• Emily Jones, Grade 9
• Poetry
• 2015

A yellow star
Once an emblem of faith
Now a symbol of death
Their rights slowly taken away
First an insignificant thing
Next a life or death situation
Everything they owned was taken
It was burned, until all that was left
Was a sky full of black clouds
Their children subjected to torture and torment
While parents watched helplessly
They were captured and caged like animals
With no refuge
Flames engulfed the Jewish people
Their ashes falling onto the ground below
Like snow falling from the sky
It's all just a game to them