Sunday, May 8, 2022

The Day After Oblivion Ended

Defending the Reich were the home guard
A force of old men, disabled veterans and boys
And Waffen SS remnants of foreign volunteers
Men who once they'd taken the side of Germany
Were seen as traitors, couldn't go home again
The battle for Berlin was long, crushing, violent, bestial
By the end most of the defenders of the city were dead
The few citizens remaining would've fled if they could
Because Berlin by now was defeated, occupied, dying
By a Soviet army composed of workers and peasants
Who upon victory lifted high the banner of red
Nothing remained but the dead, in the ruins of a city
It had become a boneyard, or a tomb
There was now quiet, after years war, final battle
Europeans had lived in a state of pure Oblivion
But a change came with Red victory, resolution
Now'd come a peace, and armistice declarations
Nazi Germany had been an aggressive nation
Having made war upon perceived enemies
They found their enemies everywhere
Both inside and outside the state
Systematically murdering other people
Eugenics and race became the science of hate
Oblivion would indeed end, soon
But there would be retaliations
The consequences of war led to changes
Maps redrawn, Nazi leaders executed
Now the entire world realized
They'd been eyewitness to doom

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