A Nazi lie and Hitler’s plot? —
The forest sighs but gives no answers.
Twelve thousand Polish officers rot,
grandsons of Sobieski’s lancers,
reactionary anti-Semites,
too dead to reach for thoughts or guns,
or, in the fragrant dark of spring nights,
to father patriotic sons.
Leo Yankevich
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/with-blood-on-his-hands-commissar-y-raichman-ponders-the-forest-of-the-dead-at-katyn-1943/
