Europe Reborn

A continent ripe for revision

The Zephyr blew the western sands

But so complete was the division

A mist stood on the easter lands.

Ideology appeared the barrier

With radio waves the only carrier

That could transcend the prison wall

Enough to make the ramparts fall.

And so we cheered – at first in Warsaw

And then of course in Budapest,

The tyrant’s fall in Bucharest,

For Prague and Havel even more so.

So can we now be of good cheer

And lay to rest at last our fear ?

 

Divided Europe, so pacific,

Amazed historians all these year

But now that freedom is prolific

Once more we hear the ancient fears.

All are concerned about the Germans.

And furtively are preached the sermons

As no one dares say it aloud.

But undercurrents in the crowd

Of newly free and greater powers

Just go to show that some are scared –

Old border issues might be bared,

We may be faced with nuclear showers.

This freedom, can’t it be enjoyed ?

Must I be quite so paranoid ?