VICTORY

I chose this poem by Sonia Weitz, Because it was a rather touching tale, with a turn of events from melancholy, to a feeling of triumph. The poem basically tells a tale of her and her father sharing a moment before they were taken away from each other, then being reunited, thus explaining the title "Victory", as they were victorious in the figurative "battle" against the nazis to stay together.What I enjoyed most, of the poem, was probably the title, which I think was short, yet it explains a lot. Maybe Sonia could have called it something like "The last meeting" or " The lat moments", but Sonia decided to think a little more positively. In the poem, she states that her father was " Once big and strong" which we thought meant that they were being rather malnourished in the concentration camps, and that she even accepted that she was "condemned to die" (in the death camps). I felt rather touched that her father (knowing they were to be executed) wanted to spend as much time as possible with his daughter. "There are no tools to measure love and only fools would fail to scale your victory." was, I guess, a way for her to say " don't give up", and to express how a bond between a father and his child is strong, and is not easy to break. After reading this poem, I felt first of all, touched, due to the love Sonia's Father shows to her, and secondly, I felt rather more sensitive towards the holocaust, knowing what kind of pain it brought to people. A connection I can make to this poem, was on a much smaller scale than this. I was about four or five, and my father had brought me to an electrical appliances store. Not wanting to walk anymore, I asked my dad if I could find a place to sit down. He agreed, but told me that he was going to go and look around in a nearby store. With my short term five year old memory, I forgot where he went and decided to go find him. When I couldn't find him, I got nervous. Long story short, My dad found me sitting on the floor, bawling my eyes out, with stammered "Dad"s escaping my mouth every few seconds.