Jessalyn: Today Started Off Like Any Other Day

Today Started Off Like Any Other Day

Today started off like any other day

I was excited to be in Poland, I was feeling okay

But that feeling changed real fast

When I went to Auschwitz I to look at the oppressed past

You had people from all over such as Czechs, Poles, and Jews

Who had to strip naked and take off their shoes

I saw the piles of shoes of all the dead today

My stomach was in knots and I did not want to stay

1.3 million deported to Oświęcim seven decades ago

But that number kept decreasing to very low

I’m not sure how many people survived

All I can say is that most aren’t alive

What would I have done if I was a Jew?

Would I have stayed, try to run, or even flew…

Flew far away where the Nazi regime couldn’t find me

A place I could practice my faith and just be

I can’t completely fathom what the oppressed went through

All I can ask of myself now is what can I do?

I have heard their stories and heard their cries

I have seen too many photos watching the weak die

I guess what I can do is not be a bystander anymore

I can share everyone’s story and see what’s in store

1 person died 12 million times

and its time to realize that’s not fine

So stand up for what is right and I’ll do the same

Because maybe the next generation will have no one to blame

or have ingrained in their mind Hitler’s name

Because finally we will come together as one

and do the righteous thing as God would have done