BERLIN

A history as tormenting, as it is old,
From Axis to Aly and Soviet stronghold,
A place no longer divided by stone,
Now free to roam, almost twenty years gone,
Scholars of Humboldt include, Einstein and Grimm,
They bring us relativity and Rumpelstiltskin,
"Den opvern von kreig und gewalteherrschaft"
No lesson learned, no way to advance,
Why burn all the books? The greatest of sin,
Pre warning from Heiner, how many did burn?
Unter den linden, cemented and closed,
Ghostly like rumble from free trains below,
Once soldiers opposed at the Brandenburg gate,
November 89, no more reason to hate,
Two parties, no different, same goal they aspired,
Flash point in time, patsy........Reichstag fire,
Two thousand four hundred? Number a mystery,
Location so strange, no working camps here,
Jewish memorial, Symbolic, well kept,
Bunker die Fuhrer, unmarked and unswept.