We recommit to this prayer, “#NeverAgain!” – v2 #Voronezh

There is a cancer within the body, never dormant,
a tumor growing, spreading, metastasized,
the legitimacy of the world order, the UN,
the illusion of peace, the rule of law a joke…
 
On a solemn day of remembrance, D-Day,
we recommit to this prayer, “Never Again!”,
we ask forgiveness from the dead, the dying,
the tortured, the ones we have left behind…
 
Now, in the heart of Europe, again, yet again,
we hear the same cries rise from the dying,
for the West to remember this prayer,
failing in its sacred promise, “Never Again!”…
 
Voronezh, a name that will be like Auschwitz,
for horrors that are happening in that place…
Humanity failing in its sacred promise
when we promised the dead, “Never Again!”…
 
Yes, “Never Again!”, we proclaim before others,
but do we mean these words, our inaction speak louder,
because this cruelty, this malice, this terror,
is happening again, as it will surely happen again…
 
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Edited June 8, 2024
We recommit to this prayer, “Never Again!” – v2
 
June 6, 2024
We recommit to this prayer, “Never Again!”
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2024/06/we-recommit-to-this-prayer-never-again.html
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Edited June 6, 2024
Voronezh – v4
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2024/06/voronezh-v4.html
Images June 4, 2024
of the rotting flesh
on the legs of Ukrainian prisoners of war
at the Voronezh Concentration Camp…
 
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