BLITZGRIEG

It was the time
of the Blitzkrieg
and you wrote
in your diary
how you played
Grieg's violin sonata
in C minor
by the broken mirror
that life would proceed
from a great memory
as the night slips by
and water drips
from the ceiling
all over
yet even in the silent traffic
of demonic U boats
covering the Atlantic
there is still hope
to be glad and rejoice
from the charismatic
Resistance
in the rumbling voices
from the Warsaw ghetto
by the snows of Stalingrad,
from a dramatic span
of America's stance,
shadows arise
in the distance
of exiled days
with patriots on trial
soldiers hospitalized
Desnos imprisoned
Walter Benjamin dies
there is a good chance
for victory.
over the enemy.