After Genocide (For Adisada) Ghosts of murdered men Boys Fathers Husbands Brothers Sons Invade refugee camp dreams Their faces fading In a soundless Last goodbye Against gunshots 8,000 gunshots Echoing without end And as the child waits Not knowing Her Srebrenica ghosts Do not want God To find them Take them From their emptiness Even though He Already did …This poem about the Srebrenica genocide was written by Menachem Rosensaft, a leading figure at the World Jewish Congress and adjunct professor of law at Cornell Law School.Rosensaft, the son of two survivors of Nazi concentration camps during World War II, has written widely on the Srebrenica genocide.
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