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."