The Measured Tread of Jackboots

"If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—forever."

George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four

As light as a feather,

rich shiny leather

forcibly placed

into my face

again and again and again,

(how do you say?)

ad nauseam.

Should I do as you say?

Should I meekly obey?

Or should I question

what's been said?

But then I remember.

I feel the heelprint

on my head.

B.R. 31.05.2021

Simon Cadell as the menacing Hauptsturmführer Jeffrey Von Fairbrother in Enemy at the Door,
the wonderful LWT drama about the German occupation of Guernsey.