Her life was very simple,
birthday presents and curfews
but then they lost the family business
and were forced to leave their home
Benjamin Franklin said,
“In life nothing is certain
but death and taxes,”
her family suffered the Devil’s arithmetic
A bureaucratic nightmare,
declarations and family separations
her simple life, quiet as a mouse,
never leaving the house, gone
Her family was separated,
she missed a lot of school
I wonder if she even cared,
when she got a tattoo
but before their separation,
her parents sheltered her,
from the world outside
and kept her out of school
no marijuana in Amsterdam
no nights out just lights out
birthday presents with a strict curfew
A life behind a bookshelf,
to learn about the world
but then they lost the family business
her father’s secret life no longer hidden
and the house he had built
without planning permission
What would this young writer think
about our modern world
if @AOC didn’t have the courage
to say the nasty C word?
They took them to the "Holocaust centres"
and separated Anne Frank's family.
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