Stalingrad, Massengrab

"NOT ONE STEP BACK"

Severity commands, dehumanize the enemy
In a hell on earth, which no living thing could survive
Clutched in a sequence of mass graves
Life - and the lack of it - became clearer each day

I watched as the bodies hung from the frozen trees that cloaked the Volga
And beneath an oblivion sky the frantic cried to the streets that bore them
I watched as the fires scorched the million hands that bound a nation;
Where life - and the lack of it - became clearer each day
I watched as the bodies hung from the frozen trees that cloaked the Volga
And beneath an oblivion sky sung the threnody to finis germaniae
I watched the fires scorch humanity of its humanity
And like a gravestone over Stalingrad
The god of war had gone to the other side

In spasm to power
Not one step back
In spasm to power
Not one step back
"...And there is no room on the other side."