Poems5

No doubt, prose and verses will be written about events in Ukraine. Some of them will be translated to English (especially those, that fall in line with the Western media's viewpoint). Quite possibly, you'll come across those works. But, while reading them, remember - Donetsk and Luhansk were there first, by many years

Anna was born on September 22, 1983 in Donetsk. She is a poet, a playwright, an actress. Candidate of Economic Sciences; Associate Professor of the Department of International Economics of Donetsk National University. She lives in Donetsk

"City of furnace fires" - Donetsk, the city of blast furnaces & miners

"The capital" - Kiev (capital of Ukraine)

"Come and see" - alludes to Bible; Chapter 6 of the Book of Revelation, and the title of the 1985 movie about Nazi war crimes in Belarus

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Here they are - simple folk, bulk oxen of powers.

The type of people, who see all in opposite colors.

For simple folk, this world consists

Of the bad and the good. The world was taken away

From this boy, who received a dog tag with a number,

And was sent to conquer the city of furnace fires.

In the city of furnace fires, war will make him a bird.

Back in the capital, his name will scarcely be heard.

Thousands of names and faces merge to add to God's features.

Hell is calculable. Don't play blind and speechless.

Come and see the hundreds of boys in army brogues,

Strewn lifeless along the sides of dusty roads.

Come and see their mothers, in grief-born madness,

Seeing the culprit in every second miner.

No - in each and every miner! There's no grace;

You know, we're all mute links of this single chain,

Wandering silent, crying from fear at nights,

In each of us, a boy painfully dies;

A boy, whom God will judge with chill ardour

For lifting arms in order to kill ones brother.

(August 2014)