[ what's Babi Yar? ]

what's Babi Yar?
ravine made for disposal
to kill both out of sight
and out of mind
how natural
when there is a proposal
exterminating
those not of our kind

what's Babi Yar?
it's unrelenting stain
requiring no monument
or plaque
each time that you
abandon or abstain
or, faced with horror
choose to taunt and mock

what's Babi Yar?
it's what you do
while hiding behind
"that's not who we are"

that's Babi Yar

Author notes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babi_Yar