Scene 6 - the obligatory death scene
Inside this bruised and beaten body
Against this blackened heart
Against my will, against my will
Beats the hand of Hashem*
Who has kept me alive to witness this...
This, this the worst of all my nightmares
Oh Hashem, why do you hate me so?
I cannot bear this burden that you call life
I am old, I am tired
Please let me sleep
Hashem, I beseech thee
Hashem, I beg of thee
Pearl turns to her husband, Schmerl, whom she believed died in the Holocaust
If you only knew what I have been through
But you were always here with me
Here with me
If you only knew the days, the dark lonely nights
When I wish I could have died
Except for the flicker of a chance
That you were somehow, someway, somewhere
Waiting for me too
That you hadn't forgotten
Schmerl my one and only love
Oh hold me closer
I want to remember
I want to be young again with you
Schmerl, remember?
Estelle Pizer 2005
*Hashem is one of the words that the Jews use for God