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We have abandoned our ally,
We have left them to the madman,
to the dead souls of their people,
To the brutality of Russia, the devils,
Ancient promises abandonment,
Left to the dread of the skies...
 
Terror knows no calendar, no pause...
Hell is raining down on them...
Four years of war and counting,
three centuries, truly, twelve years...
We have not given them what they need
To defeat this reign of evil...
 
Our lives have been unaffected,
while we hesitated, while we paused,
while their nation bleeds in pain...
We have failed Ukraine, these people,
We have not protected them from evil...
Choosing to limit what we give
Fearing endless escalation...
 
We have turned a blind eye to genocide
To the daily drone and missile attacks...
They have had to fight alone,
We have called it “resilience”,
But what choice have we given them
When they fight for survival...
 
We force them to fight alone,
without the air defenses needed,
without the Patriot missiles...
in a war for survival...
When we could have armed them to win
To defeat the one same evil...
 
We must continue to advocate, to cry out
For Hell still rains down on them
We must arm them to more than survive...
when we had the means to help them...
We must finally stand with Ukraine
To defeat the madman in the bunker...
 
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Edited March 6, 2026
We have failed Ukraine – v2
 
“In just three days of fighting in the Middle East, more than
800 Patriot missiles were used — more than Ukraine has
received throughout the entire Russian full-scale invasion,
President Volodymyr Zelensky said during a press briefing on March 5, 2026.”
Edited March 3, 2026
Taras saw this future – v3
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2026/03/taras-saw-this-future-v3.html
This poem was inspired by a note on February 3, 2026, from Oleksandra Moskalenko,
Willem F. Duisenberg Fellow, University of Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Studies,
on LinkedIn, “Shevchenko appears to us almost a prophet,
someone who foresaw this war and believed in our victory.”
Several of his poems speak to that to me, including “The Dream”,
“The Great Grave”, and “To Marko Vovchok”
A voice against injustice
typed October 15, 2024
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2024/10/a-voice-against-injustice.html
Poems about Ukraine and the book, The Poet of Ukraine,
about the life and poetry of the Bard of Ukraine, Taras Shevchenko,
which I read after Hurricane Helene,
from 9/29/2024 to 10/15/24
 
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