RANDOM JACK POETRY HOUR: RUSSIA
Sasha Skochilenko
She is an artist and musician
In an authoritarian state
She placed stickers against the war
An act that sealed her fate
Seven years in confinement
For speaking out against the war
If she speaks our again
She will get seven more
Such is the state of Russian oppression
It can’t abide the least expression
Of an individual point of view
Or conscientious objection
One wonders how very fragile
Their authority must be
To be afraid that one person
In a single moment is free
To protest a cruel and despicable war
Twenty thousand stand with her
Rest assured there will be more
For our emotions will be stirred
Sasha Skochilenko is paying a price
For failure to follow Big Brother’s advice
Her name and her cause must now be known
Until the mighty Kremlin at last atones
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