March 2nd 2022

We fled underground in the fiery red-faced dawn

With the eyes of Armageddon shedding all our ties

Who will forgive or forget; this is where freedom dies

Families split, looking for shelter, food, begging for water

Sirens wail, crack & crush hearts with our children’s fear

Still, empty streets look up to dervish flashes in the sky

Then tanks and soldiers march and there’s no reason why

Voices heard across the world, this war, ‘not in our name!’

These weapons of destruction, they’re fixing in our mind

Bow down to the despot’s dream, just deaf, dumb and blind

Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose

‘Though they may never leave, the men they take up arms

Some old and frail stay behind; it’s the only life they know

I may never see you again ‘Take this memory of me, go!’

Politicians & those who preach proclaim we’ll make a better place

Bombs of ‘freedom’ fall all around, a vanished life in our Ukraine 

Women and children, downcast, trembling, packed on the train

So strange that only yesterday saw happy crowds in the streets

Now we’re citizens of nowhere, refugees without a place or home

Destination unknown, beginning new life & friends, it’s safe to cry

Then quiet with us, our shelter, food & drink; freedom will not die

©Christopher 2022  This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

 Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose, Janis Joplin   

        “…forgive or forget”  Volodymyr Zelensky, President of Ukraine

‘citizens of nowhere’   in Thomas More’s book, Utopia, 1516

                  Henry VIII appointed him Chancellor of England in 1529 & beheaded More in 1535

         theguardian.com/books/2015/oct/16/utopias-past-present-thomas-more-terry-eagleton

         Terry Eagleton 16 Oct. 2015  The Guardian