RANDOM JACK POETRY HOUR: UKRAINE
Ceaseless (for Ukraine)
Life is nothing if not ceaseless
It attacks like a plague of locusts
It imposes hardship after hardship
It test the limits of our endurance
It waits until we are vulnerable
It pounces like a hungry predator
Pounces when we’re defenseless
Leaves us bleeding and breathless
at the dark end of a forgotten alley
Life is often and repeatedly challenging
and yet we often and repeatedly survive
We are nothing if not resilient
Our most basic instinct is to defend
Stand strong and strike back
Exact a price for every blow
For every bead of sweat and drop of blood
We will not go down without a fight
We will fight for a thousand years
and still we will not yield
We will survive at all costs
We will prevail
