I wonder

I wonder
What it's like
To attack at night
And mow down the defenseless
Invasions and raids just called [bad word] Punitive Expeditions

Like a wildfire
Devastation spreads
Across the Gallia
From Helvetia to Eburonia
The ravener's insatiate

Havoc
Think of yesterday
Ruin
mass illusion: how could it come this far?
Our dormant minds were not prepared for this

Narbonensis was not enough
The empire needed more
From aremonica to caruntia
Plagued and war-ridden land

Wars inflicted on free Gallia
An organised downfall
black cloud of imperial
Rapancity Unleashed

Imperial needs are met
At bloody cost of free tribes
Invasion, raid and war atrocity
In the name of S.P.Q.R.