"Arched Ceilings of the Pinkas Synagogue" - Pragues Pinkas Synagogue is now a Shoah Museum.

Pragues picturesque Pinkas Synagogue in the Josefov district is now a museum to the fallen from the Shoah / Holocaust, to the Jewish vistims of the Nazi genocide in World War 2. From 1939 to 1945, the majority of the Jewish inhabitants of Bohemia and Moravia were murdered either in Auschwitz's gas chambers or by mobile killing squads.

The Poem
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The arches ceilings I did not see there
Nor fancy windows of stained glass All that in my mind that stayed Was not images of beauty, alas But no, the tale of tears Etched in the walls instead Name after name of those once alive Who after the Holocaust were dead. Arching ceilings are meant to make us think Of higher things, the existence of God Our just reward or punishment According to the road we've trod. But for me the ceilings I did not see Their beauty, and the windows I missed But I saw the names upon the walls
That beg the question: does God at all exist?

This is from my "Poems from Prague" series of poems. For more see
http://www.writingsinrhyme.com/Poems_from_Prague/

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