I’m not very good at poetry! but this is something I wrote about the Holocaust in my Jr year of high school. I’m sure you can use this as the Holocaust was a huge example of dehumanization.
In Another lifetime By Kiara Ramirez
I Walked besides you like everyone else. I promise what your people claimed me for wasn’t dealt. I was the opposite of what you all had felt. The millions that once walked, now vanished and lost. All at what cost?
From the moment we arrived, We saw the grey in the sky. From the moment we got air, The scent left anyone in despair. Yes, they even took chunks of our hair. Little did we know, And little did we see. Those moments in the entrance We’re the last most of us got to see.
To the people who got away. To the people who hid another day. To the people who never woke up or had died in that way. And to the children who just wanted to play. You will be remembered every second of every day.
He is captured by a colonel who is son of Don Lupe that was killed by Juvencio. When some men are trampling on his small property he goes out to tell them not to do that when he is captured. He doesn't want to die and he says that he is not a threat to anybody because he is too old then the colonel tells his men to get Juvencio drunk.
