“Cages, chains, and breathless air, captured in droves and drenched in despair. Worked to the bone with death threadbare all to exhume, an antiquated history encased a hundred feet down in its imminent tomb. A dual diamond assembled collective, prescribed a fate by one’s darkest fears. To which now there’s this repulsive perspective, equating immunization and dehumanization, all so cavalier. Oppression’s become flippant thrown around without weight or implication as if all the privilege weren’t sufficient to mark contrast between inconvenience and systematic elimination. Crying like children that don’t get their way you’ve left decency behind, made a church of the lies left on display. Reinforced by an altar of anger and dismay, you’d rather be right than admit you’ve been led astray. Decaying morality, know without a doubt that divisions and chaos only lead to the brink, and the choice is here now to break with these patterns or downwards we sink. To trivialize the grief and horror of a genocidal past by thinking one’s rights are at stake or could mean anything as vast, is to seal a history that won’t remember kindly those that let pride and manipulation lead them so blindly. You've made a mockery of a forced bravery and resilience. When what’s owed is utmost admiration and endless reparations for the countless stories that will never be told.” // Some words for International Holocaust Remembrance Day and on the absurd notion that vax requirements could ever be close to genocide __ #holocaust #fredwrites #writingsandwreflections #poemsofinstagram #writerscommunity #edinburghgrammer #ᴠᴀᴄᴄɪɴᴇssᴀᴠᴇʟɪᴠᴇs