ODE TO A COMPOSER  (BACH AT TREBLINKA)

You're one of us now
Johann Sebastian Bach
your statues stand
but you
chained in your own score
were dragged to Treblinka
where murder and music
go hand-in-hand.

Poem ("Ode to a Composer") by Yurl Suhl (1973)
Music by Pete Seeger (1983)
TRO - (c) 1973 and 1993 Yurl Suhl and Melody Trails, Inc.