Warsaw Ghetto Poems from the Ringelblum Archives
The Sky Is Gray
by Ber Horvitz
The sky is gray
leaden, heavy –
I long for a pair of eyes
deep and blue…
The birds have fled
far over seas -
tomorrow I’ll pull myself
away from here
Gloomy autumn days
rains, rains.
Woe to the birds
underway….
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