Letter To: Ukraine
By R. Cary
I devise to seek to know your truth, how existence
looms threatened, explosions near, your life you hold
so dear. Stifling acts in denial, life, a human’s life.
I ask you to see what is more. I ask you
to plead into integrity, plead for your strength
lifting your skies so your virtues will rise;
hope, the eternal, this is life to the next.
This isn’t hell, this is your battle against
the storied hell. Evil, its absence in thought.
You, the warriors of living human faith,
In each other, your ideals now live against the
absence you will bring life, defend your space of
goodness, a moral consciousness is devised. Your
lesson to us all. You told us once before in 1918.
You're telling us again. Pushing back against the
darkness. Lifting your atlas of the mighty us; in the
trenches with your nails, your spite, your hated
detestation you will bury the flesh, bury this absence
stained in soil; we heard you this time, when
Zelensky said to Europe, ‘this is the last time you will
hear from me’ we began to understand. This is an
Ars Poetica, how we learn from just a few words,
what your existence is. Your time, space, your pain,
your suffering, your leadership. In your part of the
world, you are standing for us all, the highest human
ideal and I pray, everyday, for your freedom to win.
End
Letter To: Ukraine
By R. Cary
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