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RUSSIAN SOLDIER

 

 

Russian Soldier,

did you know that you might die?

 

now here you lie -

 

discarded and alone -

 

scattered limbs flung far and wide

undocumented  -  lost  -  unknown,

no one to mourn your passing,

There'e no romance in death,

 

there is no glory -

 

no Heaven -

 

Heaven is a myth - devised by those

who sent you to your death,

to instill a false bravado in your breast

You were useful while you lived,

 

could hold a gun -

 

now that you are gone -

 

abandoned to the mud and gore,

following those who went before,

letting others take your place

to face the spitting guns.

 

               So Russian Soldier,

                            

                                         did you know the reason why?

 

                                                               did you really choose to die?

◄ AUTUMN GATHERINGS

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Comments

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Flyntland

Sat 24th Sep 2022 09:56

Thank you to Stephen A. a comment that I greatly appreciate,
a great confidence giver.

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Stephen Atkinson

Fri 23rd Sep 2022 21:20

Superb

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Flyntland

Fri 23rd Sep 2022 14:56


Thank you to Massoud and Holden for taking the time to read and like.
Thank you Stephen - it is a poem that arrived unbidden and flew onto the page - it coincided with Putin raising the spectre of conscription and the mass exodus of young men 'who didn't choose to die'

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Stephen Gospage

Wed 21st Sep 2022 16:47

A brutal but magnificent poem. This kind of thing just has to be written.

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