However you avoid it,
However you try
To forget the war,
Fall asleep again under the sirens
Or run to the basement,
Hide —
From the “brother” take
Another dose of poison.

If only this dream would end,
If only one woke in a palace,
But again a drone hums —
We wake in a trench.

You strike, because they are killing you.
War has its own laws:
STRONG in truth,
Though weak in body,
Yet no one will break it.