Unquiet on the Eastern Front

 

Unquiet on the Eastern Front, the antagonists 

barricaded opposite the once-sedate village 

bordering on the city the aggressor-invader 

plans to seize. Servicemen on both sides dug into 

their trenches, the regular ill-trained military 

and the hastily trained civilians who  defend their 

nation's sovereign territory. They who have seen 

acclaimed film documentaries of the travesty of war 

brutalizing the fearful psyches of young men 

tasked to battle, to view their opponents as the

enemy. In truth the enemy of greater numbers 

in both men and artillery spurred to action 

the defenders stirred to defence of home 

hearth and family now know intimately 

the hollow shell of emotions as endless rockets 

explode their lines while they wait to die as did 

their companions in battle while others are

felled in deep psychosis, minds wounded

for a lifetime of anguish mourning the end of

family. Dead, all, in strikes aimed unerringly

toward civilian enclaves for their tormentor

sneers at the niceties of civilizational mores

intruding in the province of barbaric invasion.