Dogs

Kneeling on the ground

In front of a gaping hole

An edge of the world

Looking death in the eyes.

87,000 before you

3,000 with you

10,000 after you

All fall back over that abyss.

Babi Yar totalled 100,000

They stared into their killers eyes

Knew what was to happen

Had seen friends and family go before.

Over the top they went

Falling into the gorge below

It ran with the blood of 100,000

Killed by Einstazgruppa, by Hitler.

Because they were Jews

Because they were Slavs

Because they were ‘intelligentsia’

They died.

100,00 at Babi Yar

Over the gorge and to their deaths

Shot like dogs

The dog’s people thought they were.