Sunday, January 30, 2022

Russians Rise Up!

RANDOM JACK POETRY HOUR: GLOBAL POLITICS

 

Russians Rise Up!

 

From Moscow to St. Petersburg

From the Urals to the Baltic Sea

From the Volga to the Arctic Circle

From Eastern Europe to Siberia

 

Rise up and be counted!

Rise up in the name of freedom!

Rise up for your own independence!

Rise up for the people of Ukraine!

Rise up against the Great Dictator!

Rise up for Alexei Navalny!

Rise up for a brighter future!

Rise up to demand a change!

Rise up for prisoners of conscience!

Rise up for all the journalists

and dissidents who gave their lives

so that you might live in freedom!

 

The people of Mother Russia

do not deserve a life of oppression

any more than the people of Ukraine

or the people of Georgia

or the people of Albania

or the people of Romania, Poland

Bohemia, Slovakia and Belarus

All the peoples who have known

the iron fist of Soviet brutality

 

Rise up!

March on the streets of protest!

Once more in the spirit of liberty!

Once more in the spirit of equality!

Let the dictator know his days

cannot endure the hour!

The world cannot live in peace

while people are subjugated

in any nation anywhere!

 

Rise up children of Mother Russia

and let him know his reign of terror

has come to a merciful end!


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