Lidice

We visited a small "village" right outside of Prague called Lidice. I call it a "village" because all thats left is a beautiful grassy field with a meandering pathway leading through it. Lidice is a memorial to the town that Hitler's Nazis completely destroyed in 1941, killing all the townspeople, tearing down the buildings, and digging up the dead from the cemetery. He went so far as to plant a crop of potatoes on top, completely disgracing the people. The Lidice chidren currently stand guard over there home, remembering their horrible fate. The Nazis drove them around in trucks with the exhaust re-routed so that it killed them all. There is a beautiful memorial, in tribute to these children. Based on this visit, one can only hope that nothing of this caliber will happen again; unfortunately, however, history has a strong tendency to repeat itself.
                                                                                          -Kellie

"The blades sway, humming
a song to the breeze with
not a care as to what
preceded them.

They mimick voices, not
long heard but never
forgotten, when an innocence
blossomed with the dawn
of a "new day."

If only that innocence
had outshone its foe.
But alas, it must always
always be defeated, allowing
fate to take his
rightful place.

My wonder overtakes me,
imagining why and who. And
what did it look like,
these virgin days?
But as a ray of light
they are long lost,
leaving only dark shadows
behind our eyes."