April 4th Ukraine

 

04 Apr     Ukraine

 

A street full of burnt-out tanks

Innocents murdered; the young and old.

Burial pits barely hiding the crimes of hate and war

And a realisation there will yet be so much more.

 

Man’s inhumanity to man.

I do not understand.

There are no words that I can use..

‘Shocking’, ‘horrifying’, ‘barbaric’; I cannot choose.

They are just words.

I have not experienced war.

They are just words.

I do not know. Only words.

 

I weep and the images stay

As I close my eyes today.

 

How can this all happen and for what aim?

And in who’s name?

There will be no gain; you will, you will, hang your heads in shame.

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