When I Rise Up

When I rise up above the trees
South-West of the Eastern European Plain
I glide and yellow eyes look
Down on the foreign cities
Brimming with people
I beat my dark wings wide upon the air
See the fear and sorrow there
They run like sheep scattering everywhere
Houses lay torn a rubble black
See the tear and scream there
They fall like corpses frozen everywhere
Night comes a veil that winks its lights
My arc is wide circling the moon
I see iron horses galloping forward
Booming with anger
A holocaust of pain rains upon them
Curving talons grasp the air unable to secure
The reasons why greed carries on
Expanding ever so close along the land
Inching its way to that--
That does not belong
Stomping patriotic dreams
Blue and yellow flags unfurled
Unlimited by human tears
War, like a black cloud encircles the land
Trampling a flag that was baptized in blood long ago
Leaving echoes of men torn apart
Between the clouds
My snowy-feathered head bows
I cry a tear that drops with freedoms holy light
I fly back upon my perch a raptor screech
Sounds the alarm
The foe has awakened no longer in silence sleeps
The conqueror now creeps
Ushering in a great pageant of war