Where is the line? When a father tells his son not to be a child? When he just wants to hide his cruel deeds from him? When he sees his wife turn sick from what he does? It didn't stop one of the bigest monsters of mankind in the last century even when his own son got lost in his machinary of death. John Boyne's "The Boy In The Stripped Pyjamas" tells a fictional story, based on a way to cruel and true story.
crawled underneath the fence
long before the rain began
stripped identity for a game
with numbers but no names
Brothers, born from different wombs
guided by a map of lies
what they were out to find
is buried deep in the sky
[to his sister:]
in what could she believe?
traded innocence for idols
a pair of bright blue eyes
matched with this new belief
just one life, salvaged
would save the whole world, but you did not!
all life, ended, but my smoke
will turn the rain in your face to tears
now hounds are on their trail
thunder summons death with bawl
those who fall are left behind
in roaring silence
the rain has come, drenched in fear
shoved together, skin to skin
this is no shelter, but a cage
... that cuts off breath
[to his mother:]
when did sorrow catch her soul?
this scent will never leave her thoughts
she swings in circles and screams inside
"just not like this!"
just one life, salvaged
would save the whole world, but you did not!
all life, ended, but my smoke
will turn the rain in your face to tears