Der tod macht frei

 Der tod macht frei*

Der tod macht frei is the sign

That welcomes you to hell

As you enter Gaza past barbed wire

Where the Jews keep Arabs starving. 

Not all Jews, you say, and not all Arabs

But enough to soil a nation’s soul

To remind us that pure evil

Is not confined to just one nation. 

The rusted sign Arbeit macht frei

Stands somberly to this day

A testament to Hitler’s hatred

Of other people, mainly Jews

Recoiling from the killing of the Jews

Not because they’re Jews but human

So we mourn the starving infants

Not because they’re Arabs 

To speak of races is to miss the point 

We must be kind to all or none

There is no special chosen race

There is no crazy God at home. 

We must learn this lesson fast

Or we will kill the world with bombs

That Hitler only dreamed of 

Dropped by the ‘special ones’. 

• Death makes you free. 

Race is merely the pretext in the abuse of power as it looks for the softest targets be they immigrants, Blacks, Jews, Arabs, Mexicans, Irish.