Followers

Sunday, 13 March 2022

COURAGE IN UKRAINE

 COURAGE IN UKRAINE

 

By Rosemary Clarke


We hear you, Amelia

From your bomb shelter cold

By the looks of the footage

You're not very old.

But with all your bravery

Lift up your voice

Keep showing the people

That they have a choice!

The Ukrainian people

In shelters are cowed

But you will not find

One head that is bowed

They play and they dance

They write and they sing

And give hope that we help them

New life we must bring!

While governments flounder

With red tape and rules

Ukrainian children 

Can't even have schools!

The UK must step up

And so must the rest!

We're supposed to be powerful

We in the West!

Instead we ignore it

Or do little more

While the likes of Amelia

Are freezing and poor

We should be ashamed

Of ourselves and our ways

For peace in the West

Will see former days!

If we do not help

We leave it in vain

For peace for the world 

Will be smashed once again!

You glance at this poem

Get on with your time

Forgetting this message

Is really a crime!

Ukraine is not really

So far away

But, get on with your life

And ..'have a nice day'.

Copyright  Rosemary Clarke

 

4 comments:

  1. As always you are pricking our conscience, the last two lines say it all...

    ReplyDelete
  2. Agree with Len, those last two lines say it all. Although there are many people in England who are itching to do more.

    ReplyDelete
  3. Great poem Rosemay. I am giving to the appeal and am considering hosting

    ReplyDelete
  4. Thank you, and well done for helping; that's what it's for.

    ReplyDelete