It was the 2020 International Holocaust Remembrance Day that inspired this poem as there was no such Memorial Day for the Namibian people, who were the subjects of German colonialism’s experiments used into World War II. I continued my research of prominent Holocaust poems and historical resources to forge this poem together. I wanted to see a poem remember the loss of Namibian people. The villanelle form found the poem with its eerie echoing nature.
Mervyn Seivwright writes to bring social consciousness and poetry craft together for humane growth. He is from a Jamaican family born in London and has appeared in AGNI Literary Magazine, The American Journal of Poetry, and 35 other journals, being a 2021 Pushcart Nominee. Mervyn currently lives in in Schopp, Germany.
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