In our hearts we are the ocean, but we are islands in our minds

[sovay]

Hear me, all who can hear in Russia,
I am writing in Russian
from my native Ukraine
I have not been forbidden

What have you imagined,
what are they feeding you,
how did they brainwash you
while they are feeding us bullets,
fear, deaths,
Is this what you call saving us?

—A poem for Russia from the front lines of Ukraine, translated by R.B. Lemberg.

Comments

[sovay]

It is such a beautiful, powerful poem.

I don't like that there has to be so much singing about the dark times, but it is very good singing.