The German infantryman,
currently residing,
with considerable reluctance,
in the damp hell of Stalingrad;
Had made enormous strides lately;
To rescue his boot from the muddy jaws
of the rain soaked riverbank.
So pre-occupied was he that,
his single functional ear
never even heard;
The piercing sound of the
bullet with his name inscribed.
This riverbank;
Had sucked more than this
soldier's boot away.
