night and fog

Doris 2022-03-25 09:01:15

The icy waters of the ponds filled the depressions of the mass graves with ruins, and the biting muddy waters were as dark as our memories. Who among us can keep watch on this strange watchtower to warn the arrival of a new executioner who really looks different from us? Somewhere among us, the surviving prisoner leader lingers, as well as reinstated officers and anonymous whistleblowers, there are always some who refuse to believe, or only believe for a moment, we look at it with sincere attention This ruin, as if the demons of old had been shattered forever under the rocks, when the images in our minds had become faded memories, we pretended to regain hope, as if we had been completely redeemed from the suffering of the concentration camp, we pretended that it was all only Once at a certain time and place, we begin to turn a blind eye to the evil around us, to the incessant cries of humanity...

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  • Récitant/Narrator: Those of us who pretend to believe that all this happened at a certain time and in a certain place, and those who refuse to see, who do not hear the cry to the end of time.

  • Récitant/Narrator: As I speak to you now, the icy water of the ponds and ruins fill the hallows of the mass graves, a frigid and muddy water, as murky as our memory. War nods off to sleep, but keeps one eye always open.