Ruin
He tightly gripped my trembling hand
And smiled melancholically at me.
He apologized over and over
For his failure to make me see.
He wiped away the bitter, salty tears
The continuously fell.
Her soft loving forgiving words,
Made me curse myself to Hell.
"Gibel. Gibel."
Singing those Russian words so softly,
He died right there in my embrace.
I cannot hear his long forgotten name
Without a look of grievance upon my heart and face.
"Gibel. Gibel."
He approached me silently
With lustful greed in his eyes.
He dazzled me with his ungodly skill
And I quickly overlooked his small size.
He was one of my best friends, a member of my Axis,
But the song he sang
Rattled me to the core
And in my ears it rang.
"Dinashi ni suru. Dinashi ni suru."
Now with American bonds and chains
Wrapped firmly around his hands and feet,
He unwillingly bows his head low,
Sobbing out his fearful and bitter defeat.
"Dinashi ni suru. Dinashi ni suru."
It was all a game to him
And those two, and they would join the winning team.
The three of us where the best of friends, members of a glorious dream.
Yet it was dark and corroded, or so history made it seem.
South held a gun to my head,
Still stained with Allied blood,
And for me alone North said;
"Rovina, Rovina."
To others, it looked as if the Allied Forces
Let them skip away scott-free.
But I knew better, I saw the chains at their feet.
Accompanied by the sad smiles of death and poverty.
"Rovina. Rovina."
Here, wrapped in American, English, and French chains, I sit.
Locked away in my crumbling castle of waste.
The war scars are still here
I know they cannot be erased.
A Prussian Iron Cross
Clutched religiously in my hand
As I watch his body disappear
Under once Prussian but now Russian land.
A silky black, red, and yellow Japanese kimono
Hangs desolately around my shoulders
As I watch nuclear radiation and plantation meltdowns
Convert ordinary people to war zone soldiers.
I wear the gift North gave me,
His father's old Roman ring.
Now just like all of them, I know what we did.
I can't help but cry and sing;
"Ruinieren. Ruinieren."