(On August 13, 2023, a 23-day old baby girl was killed by Russian shelling in the Ukrainian village of Shiroka Balka. Six other people were killed in the attack.)

 

There’s an old saying: ‘live for the day’.

I managed to do that. Twenty-three times.

And then – you probably know what happened.

You may ask the question: ‘am I angry?’

'For missing out on the next eighty years?'

Well, perhaps, like lambs in the slaughterhouse,

I know no better. At what you don’t know,

Don’t expect, you don’t miss. So that’s all right.

Except, I do know life was all I had,

And now it has gone. I’m not that stupid.