Gutted, empty, hollow – v2

Gutted, empty, hollow,
like so many others in Ukraine,
flesh scooped from a melon,
her body wracked in pain
numb now in this moment,
literally falling in on herself
while the world watches,
her vigil, her honor, silent,
days after they stood beside her
in the moment of her anguish
today, now, totally alone…
 
Why is the world silent,
when we see the bombings,
we move on too quickly,
their genocide daily, terror,
horror too fast to process,
before the next news cycle,
her moment of abject pain,
numbed to the carnage,
emptiness before the altar,
holding onto him longer, silent,
sitting in shiva, to his memory…
 
----------  
Edited May 22, 2025
Gutted, empty, hollow – v2
 
The image of the girlfriend of murdered 17-year old
Danylo Khudi (Danylo Khudeya)
His whole family was killed on April 24, 2025 in Kyiv
Edited April 14, 2025
Screaming into the Void – v3
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2025/04/screaming-into-void-v3.html
Palm Sunday massacre in Sumy, Ukraine
Revised April 11, 2025
Kryvyi Rih – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2025/04/kryvyi-rih-v2-kryvyi-rih-not-just.html
 
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poetry, Ukraine, God, war, terror, genocide, Russia, murder, premediated, Kharkiv, Kyiv, Kryvyi Rih, Odesa, Kherson, Sumy, Stand With Ukraine,
 
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Justice is Mine – v2

At the end of our lives, our days,
when it is our time to cross over,
God will sit on the judgement seat,
He will sit righteous, forever,
He knows our whole lives...
 
"Justice is mine", He said,
to His ancient people, all people,
to all who believe, who follow,
who sit at the feet of Jesus,
all who are saved by His blood...
 
But there must be justice
in this life for evil, consequence,
for their crimes against Man,
for every war crime against
this good and brave people...
 
Justice must come, sooner,
Blood must be avenged
for the evil they have done
every drop of innocent blood
crying from their black soil...
 
----------
Edited May 20, 2025
Justice is Mine – v2
 
Based on #Deuteronomy32:35
Based on #Romans12:19
Based on Romans 12:17-21
Based on #Genesis4:10-11
Based on Genesis 4:3-11
May 1, 2025
under the radar
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2025/05/under-radar.html
April 30, 2025
Never Forget, Never Forgive
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2025/04/never-forget-never-forgive.html
April 30, 2025
agents of justice
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2025/04/agents-of-justice.html
April 30, 2025
War Crimes
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2025/04/war-crimes.html
 
All of my poems, photographs, and videos are copyrighted by Raymond A. Foss, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 202 2022, 2023, and 2024. All rights are reserved. Contact me at Ray Foss (raymondafoss@gmail.com) for usage. See all 53,000+ of my poems at www.raymondafoss.blogspot.com Poetry Where You Live.
 
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They must each be avenged – v3

Every son, every daughter,
every father, every mother,
every war crime committed,
every act of terror, of genocide,
Every victim must be avenged…
 
There will be no sleep, no rest,
there will be no forgiveness,
There will be no forgetting
the terror, the genocide,
every life that was lost…
 
Every sadness, the destruction,
carnage, the legacy of genocide,
Everything that has been lost
must be avenged for justice,
for Ukraine, for humanity,
Never Again, for all time…
 
----------  
Edited May 19, 2025
They must each be avenged – v3
 
Inspired by the attack on Russian General Yaroslav Moskalik in Moscow and
reporting of torture, mutilation and murder of journalist Viktoriia Roshchyna,
on top of the three years of genocide, terror and destruction by Russia and
the video of Rada Security Committee Secretary Kostenko, about the
long reach of Ukrainian intelligence services…
&
Edited April 28, 2025
Gutted, empty, hollow
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2025/04/gutted-empty-hollow.html
Edited April 14, 2025
Screaming into the Void – v3
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2025/04/screaming-into-void-v3.html
Revised April 11, 2025
Kryvyi Rih – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2025/04/kryvyi-rih-v2-kryvyi-rih-not-just.html
 
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They must each be avenged – v2

Every son, every daughter,
every father, every mother,
every war crime committed,
every act of terror, of genocide,
Every victim must be avenged…
 
There will be no sleep, no rest,
there will be no forgiveness,
There will be no forgetting
the terror, the genocide,
every life that was lost…
 
Every sadness, the destruction,
carnage, the legacy of genocide,
Everything that has been lost
must be avenged for justice,
for Ukraine, for humanity,
Never Again, for all time…
 
----------  
Edited May 19, 2025
They must each be avenged – v2
 
Inspired by the attack on Russian General Yaroslav Moskalik in Moscow and
reporting of torture, mutilation and murder of journalist Viktoriia Roshchyna,
on top of the three years of genocide, terror and destruction by Russia and
the video of Rada Security Committee Secretary Kostenko, about the
long reach of Ukrainian intelligence services…
&
Edited April 28, 2025
Gutted, empty, hollow
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2025/04/gutted-empty-hollow.html
Edited April 14, 2025
Screaming into the Void – v3
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2025/04/screaming-into-void-v3.html
Revised April 11, 2025
Kryvyi Rih – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2025/04/kryvyi-rih-v2-kryvyi-rih-not-just.html
 
All of my poems, photographs, and videos are copyrighted by Raymond A. Foss, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 202 2022, 2023, and 2024. All rights are reserved. Contact me at Ray Foss (raymondafoss@gmail.com) for usage. See all 53,000+ of my poems at www.raymondafoss.blogspot.com Poetry Where You Live.
 
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They must be avenged - v2

Every son, every daughter,
every war crime committed,
every act of terror, of genocide,
Every victim must be avenged…
 
There will be no sleep,
there will be no forgiveness,
There will be no forgetting,
every life that was lost…
 
Every sadness, the destruction,
Everything that has been lost
must be avenged for justice,
for humanity, for all time…
 
----------  
Edited May 19, 2025
They must be avenged – v2
 
Inspired by the attack on Russian General Yaroslav Moskalik in Moscow and
reporting of torture, mutilation and murder of journalist Viktoria Roshchyna,
on top of the three years of genocide, terror and destruction by Russia and
the video of Rada Security Committee Secretary Kostenko, about the
long reach of Ukrainian intelligence services…
&
Edited April 28, 2025
Gutted, empty, hollow
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2025/04/gutted-empty-hollow.html
Edited April 14, 2025
Screaming into the Void – v3
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2025/04/screaming-into-void-v3.html
Revised April 11, 2025
Kryvyi Rih – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2025/04/kryvyi-rih-v2-kryvyi-rih-not-just.html
 
All of my poems, photographs, and videos are copyrighted by Raymond A. Foss, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 202 2022, 2023, and 2024. All rights are reserved. Contact me at Ray Foss (raymondafoss@gmail.com) for usage. See all 53,000+ of my poems at www.raymondafoss.blogspot.com Poetry Where You Live.
 
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Never Forget, Never Forgive – v2

There must be a time of justice
a time to avenge their dead,
the price of every war crime,
on every criminal's head...
 
To honor their dead, their nation,
all who have fallen, been killed,
Justice requires the mantra,
"Never forget, Never forgive"...
 
Too much has happened
in a decade of war, of terror,
too many war crimes, genocide,
their crimes against humanity...
 
Justice requires action,
to wherever Evil has retreated,
no place may be safe, a refuge,
for anyone who committed this evil...
 
----------
Edited May 19, 2025
Never Forget, Never Forgive – v2
 
April 30, 2025
agents of justice
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2025/04/agents-of-justice.html
April 30, 2025
War Crimes
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2025/04/war-crimes.html
April 30, 2025
The Enormity of Their Crimes
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2025/04/the-enormity-of-their-crimes.html
April 30, 2025
justice for each victim
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2025/04/justice-for-each-victim.html
April 30, 2025
A well of remembrance
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2025/04/a-well-of-remembrance.html
Edited/ renamed April 29, 2025
They must each be avenged
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2025/04/they-must-each-be-avenged.html
 
All of my poems, photographs, and videos are copyrighted by Raymond A. Foss, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 202 2022, 2023, and 2024. All rights are reserved. Contact me at Ray Foss (raymondafoss@gmail.com) for usage. See all 53,000+ of my poems at www.raymondafoss.blogspot.com Poetry Where You Live.
 
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A well of remembrance – v2

Each tragedy, each evil,
a signpost, a marker,
a talisman to hold onto,
a rain of tears gathered,
to never let go of…
 
Never forget, never forgive,
the enormity of their evil,
unconscionable to appease them,
each life lost, each body shattered,
each building that was destroyed,
every war crime committed…
 
Dipping into the well of memory,
the videotapes, the records,
each iconic image written,
seared into our consciousness,
the names of their victims…
 
Each one of them is a whetstone,
a talisman worked by our fingers,
from the well of remembrance
we hold each one of them,
lives that were lost, tragically,
by the fount of their evil…
 
----------  
May 19, 2025
A well of remembrance – v2
 
The tension between remembering individual war crimes
committed by Russia and the enormity of their war crimes
across 11 years of war and genocide…
Edited/ renamed April 29, 2025
They must each be avenged
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2025/04/they-must-each-be-avenged.html
Inspired by the attack on Russian General Yaroslav Moskalik in Moscow and
reporting of torture, mutilation and murder of journalist Viktoriia Roshchyna,
on top of the three years of genocide, terror and destruction by Russia and
the video of Rada Security Committee Secretary Kostenko, about the
long reach of Ukrainian intelligence services…
&
Edited April 28, 2025
Gutted, empty, hollow
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2025/04/gutted-empty-hollow.html
Edited April 14, 2025
Screaming into the Void – v3
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2025/04/screaming-into-void-v3.html
Revised April 11, 2025
Kryvyi Rih – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2025/04/kryvyi-rih-v2-kryvyi-rih-not-just.html
 
All of my poems, photographs, and videos are copyrighted by Raymond A. Foss, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 202 2022, 2023, and 2024. All rights are reserved. Contact me at Ray Foss (raymondafoss@gmail.com) for usage. See all 53,000+ of my poems at www.raymondafoss.blogspot.com Poetry Where You Live.
 
poetry, Ukraine, God, war, terror, genocide, Russia, murder, premediated, Kharkiv, Kyiv, Kryvyi Rih, Odesa, Kherson, Sumy, Stand With Ukraine, justice,
 
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justice for each victim – v2

For now, they fight, together,
for survival, for freedom,
for their right to exist,
against the onslaught,
the struggle, united, genocide,
Russian terror in the streets…
 
We raise a prayer for peace, rising,
for these good and brave people,
not just to survive but to thrive,
to rise from the rubble, the ashes,
of Russia’s genocide, to rise,
justice for each victim,
for every war crime…
 
For now, they are on a journey,
united, rising from the rubble,
the ashes of destruction
together they will be made whole
as people, as a people united,
in the cause of justice,
never forgetting their evil,
while any of them live…
 
----------  
Edited May 19, 2025
justice for each victim – v2
 
April 30, 2025
justice for each victim
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2025/04/justice-for-each-victim.html
The tension between remembering individual war crimes
committed by Russia and the enormity of their war crimes
across 11 years of war and genocide…
Inspired by the attack on Russian General Yaroslav Moskalik in Moscow and
reporting of torture, mutilation and murder of journalist Viktoriia Roshchyna,
on top of the three years of genocide, terror and destruction by Russia and
the video of Rada Security Committee Secretary Kostenko, about the
long reach of Ukrainian intelligence services…
April 30, 2025
A well of remembrance
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2025/04/a-well-of-remembrance.html
Edited/ renamed April 29, 2025
They must each be avenged
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2025/04/they-must-each-be-avenged.html
 
All of my poems, photographs, and videos are copyrighted by Raymond A. Foss, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 202 2022, 2023, and 2024. All rights are reserved. Contact me at Ray Foss (raymondafoss@gmail.com) for usage. See all 53,000+ of my poems at www.raymondafoss.blogspot.com Poetry Where You Live.
 
poetry, Ukraine, God, war, terror, genocide, Russia, murder, premediated, Kharkiv, Kyiv, Kryvyi Rih, Odesa, Kherson, Sumy, Stand With Ukraine, justice,
 
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War Crimes – v2

War crimes, terror, genocide,
crimes against humanity,
the number rising daily,
too much destroyed
too many lives lost...
 
Each one to be tallied
every act of evil avenged,
justice may not come quickly,
but Justice must come
for every war crime...
 
They will not forget,
they cannot forgive,
never becoming complacent,
the enormity of their war crimes,
as long as they live...
 
----------
Edited May 19, 2025
War Crimes – v2
 
The tension between remembering individual war crimes
committed by Russia and the enormity of their war crimes
across 11 years of war and genocide…
Inspired by the attack on Russian General Yaroslav Moskalik in Moscow and
reporting of torture, mutilation and murder of journalist Viktoriia Roshchyna,
on top of the three years of genocide, terror and destruction by Russia and
the video of Rada Security Committee Secretary Kostenko, about the
long reach of Ukrainian intelligence services…
April 30, 2025
The Enormity of Their Crimes
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2025/04/the-enormity-of-their-crimes.html
April 30, 2025
justice for each victim
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2025/04/justice-for-each-victim.html
April 30, 2025
A well of remembrance
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2025/04/a-well-of-remembrance.html
Edited/ renamed April 29, 2025
They must each be avenged
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2025/04/they-must-each-be-avenged.html
 
All of my poems, photographs, and videos are copyrighted by Raymond A. Foss, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 202 2022, 2023, and 2024. All rights are reserved. Contact me at Ray Foss (raymondafoss@gmail.com) for usage. See all 53,000+ of my poems at www.raymondafoss.blogspot.com Poetry Where You Live.
 
poetry, Ukraine, God, war, terror, genocide, Russia, murder, premediated, Kharkiv, Kyiv, Kryvyi Rih, Odesa, Kherson, Sumy, Stand With Ukraine, justice,
 
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agents of justice – v2

stealth, secrecy, honor,
their watchword, their code,
seeking justice for the victims,
gathering the evidence, identities,
awful crimes each one committed
their evil, every war crime...
 
hiding under the radar,
stealth their every action,
within the realm of their evil,
readying their timing, actions,
when to strike their blow,
to avenge their war crimes...
 
agents of justice, ready,
honing their skills, testing,
never becoming complacent,
ready for opportunities,
in the streets of Moscow,
consequence for each war crimes...
 
----------
Edited May 18, 2025
agents of justice – v2
 
Inspired by the attack on Russian General Yaroslav Moskalik in Moscow and
reporting of torture, mutilation and murder of journalist Viktoriia Roshchyna,
on top of the three years of genocide, terror and destruction by Russia and
the video of Rada Security Committee Secretary Kostenko, about the
long reach of Ukrainian intelligence services…
April 30, 2025
War Crimes
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2025/04/war-crimes.html
The tension between remembering individual war crimes
committed by Russia and the enormity of their war crimes
across 11 years of war and genocide…
April 30, 2025
The Enormity of Their Crimes
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2025/04/the-enormity-of-their-crimes.html
April 30, 2025
justice for each victim
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2025/04/justice-for-each-victim.html
April 30, 2025
A well of remembrance
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2025/04/a-well-of-remembrance.html
Edited/ renamed April 29, 2025
They must each be avenged
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2025/04/they-must-each-be-avenged.html
 
All of my poems, photographs, and videos are copyrighted by Raymond A. Foss, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 202 2022, 2023, and 2024. All rights are reserved. Contact me at Ray Foss (raymondafoss@gmail.com) for usage. See all 53,000+ of my poems at www.raymondafoss.blogspot.com Poetry Where You Live.
 
poetry, Ukraine, God, war, terror, genocide, Russia, murder, premediated, Kharkiv, Kyiv, Kryvyi Rih, Odesa, Kherson, Sumy, Stand With Ukraine, justice,
 
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