Mahler- Quartet For Strings In a Minor
I see a German wilderness,
littered with soldiers
and the broken bones
of a nation at the grips of war,
and there are flowers everywhere...
in the soil, in the faces and mouths
of dead children, and lifeless bodies
flung over the earth in a quilt of death,
and of course I don't understand,
and could never feel being there,
but the knowledge is enough,
to take another photograph,
of orchestrated madness,
the forward stepping march
of eagle minded Nazi troops,
baraging into the brain
with every screaming note,
and moaning key,
to provide meaning,
to what it feels like
to fight a war you want,
but do not need,
and to kill a man,
to feul a dream.
Copyright © Ph.D Volo Von Wolfenstein | Year Posted 2011
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