Saturday, February 26, 2022

Courage Under Fire

 RANDOM JACK POETRY HOUR: GLOBAL POLITICS


Courage under Fire

 

“You will see our faces, not our spines.”

-- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky

 

The Ukrainian people have pledged

To fight for their freedom

For their homes and their lands

For their independence from tyranny

 

They oppose the mighty army

Of the world’s great oppressor

They oppose the heartless

The monstrous the merciless

Leadership of the Great Dictator

 

They oppose imperialism

The politics of military conquest

The history of colonialism

 

They know they cannot defeat

This enemy on the battlefield

They cannot match the enemy’s

Missiles, tanks, and soldiers

Yet they can win by surviving

They can win by holding on

They can win by fighting back

By folding into the cracks

By exacting a daily cost

To the occupation of their land

 

As a great American* once said:

You can take hold of it

But how long can you hold it?

A decade?

A century?

A millennium?

 

When every day exacts a cost

In blood sweat and treasure

The outcome is most certain

You will lose this war

And you will go down in history

As the bloody evil tyrant

That you are

 

(* Paraphrasing B. Franklin)

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