Liberation

 RANDOM JACK POETRY HOUR: UKRAINE

Liberation (Kherson)

 

We welcome you our soldiers

We have prayed for this day

At last we are liberated

Now we pray you will stay

 

We have lived in occupation

We have held our heads down

We kept faith that our nation

Would retake this sacred ground

 

The invaders were cold and cruel

They punished us for breathing

Living under a despot’s rule

Not knowing where it’s leading

 

You have come to lift our spirits

You have come to free our souls

When once we were the broken

You have made our spirits whole