Ernst Toller Children Poems
- 1. Nightmare
The people's conscience squats
on a worm-eaten pole.
Around the pole dance the bones of three children.
From the young mother's belly it ruptures forth:
... - 2. Deutschland
Through the grill of my cell
I see children playing.
Pinned there, shrinking there,
prison-yearsâ?¦ torture-yearsâ?¦
...
