Werhner Von Braun

Wernher von Braun surrenders to the Americans

1.

Forgive me, mein Fuehrer, but I’m no martyr

for a cause your torched bones will be no holy relics for

being a ‘menace to the security of the Allied forces’

doesn’t mean being a ‘menace to the security of the Allied forces’

for I’ve dreams and visions of V-2s arcing rainbows to my new fatherland.

2.

While you brood on what to do Mr President with your ‘prisoner of peace’

remember a Bolshie Moon’s on the Russians’ agenda

and the future is where we are living now – think of it! you and me

primed for glory ready to repel the subversives of the galaxy;

those fiends jamming our radars a hideous red of Moscow or Mars.

Michael Wyndham