Six Million Bubbles 

By Don Yu 

Bubbles flow to River 

Rivers reach to Sea 

Seas arrive to Ocean 

 Oceans immerse to Harmony 

With 4 billion years of Bubbles 

Survived on Balance 

In calm Ocean Waves 

Suddenly 

A rare Bubble Mephistler was born 

On August 2,1934 

Trembled Sea Waves  

During  

1938 to 1945 

For 4500 Days 

Six Million Hebbles 

Sufforized into the Air 

The Pleasure of Madness 

Was 

 The Agony of Sacred  

Eventually  

Roaring Nature of Ocean 

Saved   

Six Million pulverized Hebbles  

Back Into the Ocean 

Of Calmness 

Billions of Bubbles and counting  

including Mephistler 

And Hebbles 

 See the sufforized Hebbles 

As the Saviors 

Prompting 

No Name 

No Identification 

No Time Span 

Just healing  

The Nature 

Toward 

Free of repeating  

The  

Generational 

Wheel  

Of  

Tyranny  

And  

Suffering  

Don Yu’s poem, “Six Million Bubbles,” is a poignant and conceptually rich allegory that transforms a specific, devastating historical reality into a universal narrative of ecological and spiritual restoration. The stark phrase "Six Million" immediately evokes the tragedy of the Holocaust, while the explicit timeline from 1938 to 1945 reinforces this historical grounding. 

Yu cleverly invents a unique vocabulary to abstract this immense trauma, contrasting the predatory tyrant, "Mephistler" (a chilling blend of Mephistopheles and Hitler), against the innocent, persecuted "Hebbles" (symbolic of the Hebrew people). The poem's brilliance lies in its fluid, elemental metaphors. Human lives are envisioned as transient "bubbles" navigating a vast evolutionary timeline of "4 billion years." When the harmony of this primordial ocean is broken by the "pleasure of madness," the pulverized Hebbles do not simply vanish; they are reclaimed by the roaring justice of the "Nature of Ocean." 

Ultimately, the poem transcends historical grief to offer a message of cyclical healing. By viewing the "sufforized" (suffering/vaporized) victims as nameless, timeless saviors, Yu elevates their collective memory into a cosmic force. The poem stands as a moving testament to resilience, illustrating how nature absorbs human tyranny to ultimately break the generational wheel of suffering.