Two poems by Bernie Williams

I Am Guilty The Fight

I didn’t make us stand for hours without space

To move, to sit, to sleep, to pee or shit.

I didn’t put us in the over crowded place

And watch my family sink deep into the pit.

But I am guilty.

I didn’t shove us into the cold damp stinking shed.

I didn’t make us all strip and stand there naked Then march into the barracks for a bugridden bed.

Boards hard and rough, in death and dying, caked.

But I am guilty.

I didn’t choose my sister and brother, For sick and horrific experimenting.

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