Showing posts with label Elie Wiesel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Elie Wiesel. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Neither Positions Nor Possessions...


Tonight I watched a moving, memorable Holocaust documentary with Oprah Winfrey and Elie Wiesel, filmed at today's Auschwitz. (Please, after reading my post, scroll up again to line 1 and click on the hyperlinked phrase above!)

At one point, Elie Wiesel told Oprah, "What I realized here is that nothing mattered…positions or possessions, nothing." His eloquent words inspired this poem:


Sorry To Burst Your Bubble, but…
By S. L. Lipson 

                                
          P ossessions
          O r
          ositions

                     P ersuasions                                      
                     O r
                     P ermissions

                                 P olitics
                                 O r
                                 P ontifications

                                          P op!
                                             F izzle!
                                                F ade!
                                                   F ly...
                                                  

                                      Only Love survives.