29 May 2012

There was a girl of the Holocaust A girl we know as Anne She spilled her secrets in a diary Her hopes, her dreams, her plans

The family Frank was Anne and Otto, Edith and Margot To her father she was close Her mother and sister less so

Young Anne was finding her own feet Love and care she sought Yet her relationship with her ma Was frail and often wrought

It struck me as I read her words And the feelings they imbue All these hopes Anne felt and thought Her mother never knew

Her mother never knew the woman Her daughter could become She died, broken, in a wicked place At the hands of Nazi scum

Through Anne's diaries we see her life The dreams she would pursue The saddest thing to me is that Her mother never knew.

NomShe Never Knew • Opuss № I