12 Years
12 years of hate
12 years of death
12 years of suffering
12 years of prejudice
In the eyes of many
They were not even human
Not worthy of rights
Not worthy of privileges
Newspapers, book, and pictures
All to deface and disgrace
There to dehumanize
There to discriminate
12 years of hate
12 years of death
12 years of suffering
12 years of prejudice
Divided from others
Businesses closed down
Restriction of freedom
Restriction of rights
Legal, economic, and social rights
All taken away
Anyone different discriminated
Anyone different taken away
12 years of hate
12 years of death
12 years of suffering
12 years of prejudice
Millions separated from life
Jews, Gypsies, disabled, and mentally challenged
All taken to meet their fate
All taken forever
Non-Aryans in camps
Working and dying
There for experimentation
There for death
12 years of hate
12 years of death
12 years of suffering
12 years of prejudice
Auschwitz, Flossenburg, Majdanek
Places of depression and suffering
For forced labor
For annihilation
Many marching toward the end
The unthinkable being done
Ignorance among many
Ignorance among the world
12 years of hate
12 years of death
12 years of suffering
12 years of prejudice
As innocent beliefs
Are taken as arrests
Trapped in a prison
Trapped in a dark pit of despair
Violence, prejudice, and discrimination
Unbelievable in the human eye
Never ending pain
Never ending trauma
12 years of hate
12 years of death
12 years of suffering
12 years of prejudice
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