(Maternity Ward – Ukraine)

Caesarean by torchlight,

Windows spraying shards,

Husband killed in fighting,

She holds no more cards.

Shifted while in labour,

Infant on a drip,

Ordeal terrifying,

Fights to keep her grip.

The doctors and the nurses

Deliver in the dark,

But sometimes the destruction

And the death are just too stark.

In Moscow th...

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