Destination Unknown (Satis Shroff)
Everything went fast.
They gave me a uniform
Boots and a gun.
They said we’re going to a manouvre- training.
In an aeroplane from Moscow.
Destination unknown.
It was dark and we slept out.
In the morning we woke up
Near three big artillery guns.
The terrible shelling began.
We were bombing houses,
Buildings, streets.
My mind screamed:
I don’t want to kill people,
Brothers and sisters,
Fathers and mothers.
Not those poor, innocent children.
As the war progressed
I realised there were no neo-nazis
We were after.
My comrades filled their tanks
With consumer goods
We’d come to plunder.
Rape and take
What we wanted.
No military targets in sight.
Till a Javelin struck us from above.
We never lived to tell
And are
still in Ukraine — — as ghosts.
* * *
URKAINE BLUES: LIES FOR RUSSIA (Satis Shroff)
Which leaders said
The west will be using nukes?
Sergei Markov Putin’s spokesman replied:
‘Some marginal politicians.’
He couldn’t come up with a single name.
‘If western countries use tactical weapons,
We’ll do it too.’
Russia’s is a liberation army.
Russia is a free, democratic country.
Whereas Ukraine is repressive, totalitarian one.
Ah, the angst of Russia is that war
Could be extended to Russian territory,
By the trigger-happy and successful Ukranians.
That is why the tenor has changed
In Putin’s Kremlin circles.
If you attack us,
We will attack you.
A big ‘IF’ indeed.
The former President Demitri Medwedew
Has threatened the west again and again.
In Telegram he wrote:
‘All weapons in Russia’s arsenal,
Even strategic Atombombs,
Will be used to defend sectors
That want to join Russia per referendum.
Speaking at the Security Council in New York,
Sergei Lawrow the Foreign Minister,
Called Ukraine a totalitarian , nazi-like state,
Where human rights are trampled upon
With military boots.
Pray, who is making sure at gunpoint
That people fill up the referendum?
A military special operation
Became inevitable,
Says the Russian narrative.
This country is a threat
To the existence of Russia.
We will never accept it.
Lawrow came late and left
After his tirade.
He had no intention
Of facing the collective music
That would come after his speech.
What he left behind was a series
Of tiring distortion,
Dishonesty and disinformation.
Russian propaganda,
As usual.
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