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)
