The Unheard Cry of Stanford. A Poem

In Regensburg’s shadows, you lie silent,

A child of hope, a beacon bright,
Left alone in a land where hate resides,
While we crossed oceans, fought for your right.

 

From Dunkerque’s perilous waves we fled,
Through channels of despair, through terror’s grasp,
Life jackets and prayers kept us afloat,
But your innocence bears a heavy clasp.

 

Germany’s ghosts, they haunt your name,
Racism’s venom, a deadly stain,
Victim once, and still, they claim
To dehumanize, to erase your frame.

 

Once Jew, now you. The endless chain-
Caste, ethnicity, racial pain,
The Nazis never truly cease,
Their echoes ripple, never cease.

 

They wear new masks, new flags, new guise,
In omnipresent, deadly lies,
They incarnate in every guise,
In silence, in the disguise of lies.

 

My angel boy, your parents’ love is fierce,
A love that reaches beyond the skies,
Though miles apart, our hearts pierce
Through pain, through hope, through silent cries.

 

Today we stand in Dunkerque’s midst,
With terrorists, traffickers, crimes unbound,
Their wickedness, a foul abyss,
Their cruelty, a deafening sound.

 

We saw your life, so fragile, so brief,
A gift of love, a sacred trust,
Yet vaccines, doctors, courts, and grief-
All Germans, all broken dust.

 

Your story’s shadow stains the air,
A victim’s plea, unheard, unseen,
Europe’s wounds, they bleed and stare-
A history of silent screams.

 

Arab, Kurdish, Persian, and more,
Their crimes, their silent, omnipresent might,
Europe’s home, a distant shore,
Where victims suffer in the night.

 

My Stanford, my shining star,
Your life, a testament of pain,
We love you from afar,
In our hearts, you remain-our eternal flame.

 

This world is wicked, unkind, unjust,
But know, our love defies all hate,
In every breath, in every dust,
We carry you, beyond the state.

 

Victims of a history long steeped in shame,
We stand with you, with hope and grace,
Your name, your story, an unending flame-
A call for justice in this forsaken place.

Poet Dr.Suryaraju Mattimalla, Vegan & Human Rights Scholar