Black and White

My question to the Holocaust survivors...

Yesterday the students watched
a video of Elie Wiesel going back to Auschwitz.
He used to be 15-- in black and white.
Today he is 82-- in living color.
He approaches Auschwitz, on a bus this time,
riding, silently, staring out the window.
Underneath a bright blue sky
birds are chirping,
grass is waving bright green in the breeze--
but it doesn't seem to fit.
Everything I've seen and learned
of the
Holocaust
is in
black and white.
Photographs of the victims,
the perpetrators,
train tracks,
the camps,
barracks,
Hitler...
all images of gray and black and white--
such a dark and black time seems
fitting to stay that way...
Elie gets off the bus and
steps on to the dirt path that
leads back to his dark past.
Birds fly overhead and white cumulous clouds
brag a bright beautiful day.
I never imagined birds chirping
while the
Holocaust went on.
I never painted the sky blue as I read the books
and watched old newsreels.
How did the sun have the guts to come out
back then?
How did any bird find a song
as it flew above what was happening below?
Yes, black and white seems much more fitting
for such a time and place in the world...
How did anyone find "technicolor" in the world again?