I remember remembering the Shoa

how it devastated my confidence

bankrupted my own culture’s common sense

drowning decency - no ark nor Noah.

How I began again to find a way

towards the God whose goodness paid the cost

to mark my journey by the holocaust.

Since then, that most deliberate genocide,

we perpetrated horrors past belief

capacity for ill without relief

brazenly displayed; seen and not denied.

How I learned again the need for Goodness Infinite

to overcome all evil; every wrong make right.