An Ukrainian Song II
The twelfth commandment:
War is peace and peace is war,That leaves us asking: what is love?
Innocent folks in the hospice,
With one voice, we cry: stop please!
I heard dialogue was the tool of civility,
Take us back to the age of hostilities,
With a candle set off a mushroom—
Events developing like a dark room.
Lap it up like a pumpkin,
The story of Humpty Dumpty,
I hope you get what you deserve,
Come raining up and storming down!
Perhaps, right, but now you're wrong,
Open your eyes, you're no longer young,
Perhaps, you want to history belong?
To remember your might as strong?
Warn the world, untamed bear,
Your artillery wide and broad,
Your calvary sharp and blunt,
Here on earth, playing god,
Permission to speak, my lord?
Your final words facing God...
Tokede Opeyemi,
24th February, 2022.
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