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To My Neighbor

I lift you higher,
lift you out
of your body cells
stuffed with anxiety
of your past -
an evil load that smells.

I'll fill each cell
with love and joy
that makes the
angels dance.
You'll glide through earthly
filth and stench -
a spiritual trance.

From your youth filled eyes,
your hands
and feet,
a holy peace shall flow,
so you and I
be filled with grace -
let us be still
and know.

William Hermanns
[P527]

Seelentränen

Seelentränen sind Gedichte,
rot mit Herzblut aufgeschrieben,
tiefem Menschenleid zum Ruhm,

Lies sie still in reinem Lichte,
unbeschattet,
frei von Trieben:
Du betrittst ein Heiligtum.

Wilhelm Hermanns
[G001]

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Poem of William Hermanns

P006

Verdun and You

On the battlefield of Verdun I stand.
Half a million, young as I,
are buried here. Where are they now?

And an equal number unknown, like the sand
beneath my feet, blown into bits.
Come youths of the world, stand here and vow:

No flag shall wave in the name of a state
to make us murderers sanctified.
No schoolbook shall poison our children's minds,
that they must die for what these died.

Beware the uniform let loose
by national slogans coined at a desk
which makes you march with flag ahead.

Their slogans are a crimson noose
around your neck. Stand still and think:
For this shall we join the million dead?

Stand still and watch a shadow rise:
The military-industrial paw.
What's left but radioactive waste.
There Is a God and cosmic law.

William Hermanns [P006]

Note: The author was a volunteer of the Kaiser and survived the Battle of Verdun in 1916. He has his memoirs of that battle published as The Holocaust - from a survivor of Verdun (Harper & Row, 1972 - now out of print).