Poem # 9

Megalomania

If you were to jump from where you stood
because they asked you to
on top of the tallest skyscraper in downtown
where your good restless heart lay overdue
Closest to the gods where we belonged
or so were you convinced
Don't make the leap
Have you lost your mind
You feel like I don't know you anymore
Screaming loud reaching out
to be heard by the impassive crowd
Every crisis was an opportunity
a contagious signal
urged us to prove ourselves
to everyone victimized by fictions, statistics,
and the supposed new world?
Assume you couldn't see the lines drawn
Pretend you did not need to fight a war alone
Suppose you haven't noticed the distance grown
You dream of an escape from reality
drifting away from history, once learned lessons
Your greatness shown in your vanity
through the rise and fall of humanity
glorified leaders you admired not long ago
Have you forgotten they no longer held control?
Why did you let them come back to haunt you?
Don't make the leap
Have you lost your mind
Ignore their cheers
They only want to see you bleed
...
...
Love,
go on and fight their battle,
One day we might finally agree on where to go...

Ella Evans© 2008

Jungvolk Oath (taken by ten-year-old boys on first entering the Hitler Youth)

"In the presence of this blood banner which represents our Führer, I swear to devote all my energies and my strength to the saviour of our country, Adolf Hitler. I am willing and ready to give up my life for him, so help me God."