"Gulag nights "

Gulag nights

Shivering in an unheated box car
carrying you East, ever East
to God knows where
the camps, the Gulag
(but the world still weeps over the Six Million)

Dumped into the snow
in Kolyma or Kamchatka
Where the day is always night
Only a tent for cover
(but the world still weeps over the Six Million)

Twenty years hard labour for nothing
one of twenty millions poured
into the devouring jaws
of the Stalinist beast
(but the world still weeps over the Six Million)

Driven out in the dark to work
starvation rations
all thoughts of home and hope gone
getting weaker every day
(but the world still weeps over the Six Million)

What was your crime?
You do not know
they didn't tell you
now an eternal slave to a Communist evil
(but the world still weeps over the Six Million)

After years of misery
of cold and hunger
you suddenly tumble and die
a forgotten name and a forgotten number
(but the world still weeps over the Six Million)
 

Twenty-two millions
are sacrificed on the false altar
of human equality, yet
even the camps are now forgotten
(but the world still weeps over the Six Million)

yet we, we remember you