The Things We Cannot Say

by Kelly Rimmer

Hatred was like some otherworldly beast, seeded in small acts of violence and oppression against our Jewish citizens, growing in strength as the power-hungry fed it with rhetoric and propaganda.

Why do humans keep repeating this horrific ideas

because to my father, a man’s heritage and religion were irrelevant—Father was interested only in character and work ethic.

this is how i was taught in my family

family I had somehow helped to create. I shook

Hatred spreads—it doesn’t burn out with time. Someone needs to stand up and stop it.