The war continues.
Tyranny continues.
Suffering’s companion
is now endurance.

Threats and tanks
and missiles flow as
a smoking river of death
that moves as poison
across this beautiful land.

Stirring speeches and obscene lies
continue as we watch helpless
and with fatigue,
and throw in what we can,
but not what they need.

It all looks so familiar and
little has changed as the
smoke rises and the tragedies
add up as grotesque maths,
for this is a war,
and this is about people,
and this is about death,
and this is about survival,
and this is about sovereignty,
and this is about propaganda,
and this is about freedom,
and this is about inaction,
and this is about winning,
for to lose is the cost
we will all pay at the end.

For Ukraine after one year of war

24/2/2023