WE DRIVE EAST

(...reflections on visiting 
 a hospital in Croatia...)

Douglas Pearce

 
A woman weeps,
  Workers, soldiers; 
Flesh hangs in the trees,
  Agitators .

Men die for a cause,
  Marching to the incinerator. 
The kids and their sweets,
  Now we pay our debts 
To die on the Steppes. 

Carry the banner,
  We paid in blood.
Carry the banner high,
   We paid in blood. 

Carry your banner,
  Let loose from the leash, 
Forward to the skies,
  To hunt the Bolshevik beast.

The hangman waits.,
  We paid in blood. 
A noose for you,
  We paid in blood. 

For those who repent 
  We wait there too.
For a free Europe, 
  We drive East.....
  We drive East.....