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The Chamber

Indunil Madhusankha Hewage

It was not a quite capacious chamber
Though hundreds were huddled tight
Just like a panicked herd of sheep
The men and the women
The young and the old
The rich and the poor
The sickened and the handicapped
All were in the grayish chamber
Waiting to embark on a journey
That they would never return from
Some wailed and shuddered ghastly
With startled eyes and reddened faces
Others remained shockingly silent
Yet, peeing their pants
The old muttered dreadfully
Pointing their hands to the sky
Which was out of their view
A stuttering of Bible verses
And all of a sudden
As the whitish fumes engulfed them all
They had to close their eyes
And plunge into the gravest silence
With the heaviest breath of life
Only the echoes of howling and prayers
Now recurrently haunting the silent chamber...

 

(Previously published in the 23^rd Annual Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) Issue of Poetry Super Highway)

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