SUBJUGATION

What is it like to be Russian, Bulgarian or German?

What is it like to mourn a person’s death

or to witness a town’s destruction?

We are English, we win the wars, we never lose.

We can only guess what it is like

to have our homeland occupied by an invader.

Think of the futile resistance against a crushing

enemy with no sense of winning, ever.

In our English hearts we will endure

all and defeat our foes.

We think of those less fortunate,

under the boot of the enemy.