His hands will never be clean – v3 #Putin #Navalny #Ukraine #poetry #ArmUkraineNow

His hands are stained with blood, so many, so many,
permanent scars, a gash in his hands, on his body.
Do they haunt him in the night, in the darkness?
 
So many people, martyrs, innocents, that he has
murdered, a list grows longer, every day.
His hands will never be clean.
 
He is death, evil, a little Satan, a devil,
a living specter, a terrorist, an embodiment.
He is the worst there is of man, of humanity.
 
He is stripped of all empathy, of conscience,
hiding in the bunker, with his demons.
Evil’s minions whisper to him, justifying death…
 
So many martyrs, so many innocents,
cry from their tombs, from the grave.
Their blood will forever be on his hands.
 
Their blood is burned on this flesh, a scar, a memory,
permanent, that will never fade away.
His hands will never be clean.
 
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Edited February 18, 2024
His hands will never be clean – v3
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2024/02/his-hands-will-never-be-clean-v3.html 
Edited February 18, 2024
His hands will never be clean – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2024/02/his-hands-will-never-be-clean-v2.html
February 16, 2024
His hands will never be clean
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2024/02/his-hands-will-never-be-clean.html
For all whose death Putin has caused
February 16, 2024
He was murdered
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2024/02/he-was-murdered.html
on the death in prison of Alexei Navalny
 
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