This poem seems like a transition from thoughts of a little girl during the Holocaust to the same girl as a survivor after the war is over. The poem starts off with the girl telling the reader that she went through lots of death and guilt. She feels like she was partly responsible for these deaths as she says: “I’m a canal in Europe where bodies are floating… I’m a mass grave”. Without a doubt, the similes she uses are very descriptive and really make you feel death and mourning during the war and how it felt to witness it all. The poem seems to be this girl’s memories transitioning from the concentration camps to escaping them to ending up mourning in Israel.She describes herself and other women in the streets of Israel depressed and all wearing black.  It’s a sad thought that the people who actually survived the Holocaust didn’t live happily ever after; they continued to mourn and suffer even after the war was over.