The call of your motherland is the strongest call of all,
you know its your time when your great land starts to fall.
One by one your home cities are lost,
and battle after battle no win at any cost.
Your a simple man a watch maker by trade,
and yet you hoped that they would just not invade.
It started off with a treaty like no other,
A called cease fire against your German brothers.
But of course the treaty was torn,
and soon all you felt was hateful scorn.
The German oppressors set foot on your motherlands soil,
and yet all you can do is fight on through the toil.
At last the great city of Stalingrad lies in their sights,
and all your Friends are going in for their final fights.
The troops are in place around the once great town,
you look on to the day battle with out a frown.
You stand shoulder to shoulder with your Russian brothers,
and cry for the motherland like all the others.
The orders where given to charge the guns,
and to take back the city and force them to run.
But history repeats itself with holy repetition,
and the guns rip you with no major discretion.
You keep on running with the pain in your chest,
from where the bullet had entered your breast.
Yet you keep on running and firing along,
all the while insulting the bastards in your old Russian tongue.
Looking forward and never turning back,
You see your comrade running along the tracks.
Then all of a sudden it seems to be calm,
like the time when the Germans meant no harm.
You realise that this is it your dead,
the bullet with your name on it had pierced your head.
Remember this day and those Russian troops,
who had died defending their truths.
In the end Stalingrad was taken back,
and all the Russians lay dead in the sack.
Not one could say it ended well,
when both sides had just been through hell.
One side defending the motherland with unlimited zeal,
and the other defending their ultimate ideals.
So you can tell your grandchildren the old stories,
But at least remember the battle in the forties.
Author notes
I wrote this peice after watching a film about the Russian battles, if you want any details either PM me or google the battle for Stalingad
Written April 27th, 2006
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Very nice battle poem, I think the word 'yet' may be used in a different way than Im used to reading- but thank you for the entry.
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This is very well done...
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First of all, thank you for entering my contest. I really appreciate it, and I wish you the best!
well done! marevlous! I especially loved the line: the call of your motherland is the strongest call of all...
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nice, well done, flows great and shows great devotion to your country, nice use of words, and love the ending, great job and thanks for entering, - Jacen an IndividualEleven
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Great piece about the invasion of Russia during world war II, ordinary people and their views and patriotism and how it affected them, is strongly worded in this. A very nice write.
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