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Author’s Note: I wrote this after reading some accounts from Ukrainians who are getting ground down – they want their independence but they also fear their country is being destroyed, literally and politically, and there seems to be no way to, in practical terms, split the difference. The public face is very patriotic but there are strings of commentary that are very dark…<\/p>\n
– Arrias<\/p>\n
Pawns<\/strong><\/p>\n The rains have ended, summer\u2019s come, The war grinds on, still no end in sight, Everything is starting to blend, Pawns on some great chessboard, While oligarchs in the cities Our friends are dying left and right, And the little drones chase us, I want my country to be free, How do we save the country? Copyright 2024 Arrias Author’s Note: I wrote this after reading some accounts from Ukrainians who are getting ground down – they want their independence but they also fear their country is being destroyed, literally and politically, and there seems to be no way to, in practical terms, split the difference. The public face is very patriotic but there […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arrian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28027"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28031,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28027\/revisions\/28031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThe bunker\u2019s hot and dry,
\nThe shelling continues, we fight on,
\nNo one any longer asks why.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/arrias_pawns.jpg\")
\n\u201cRecruiting teams,\u201d prowl each street,
\nWith a friendly greeting – And a black hood
\nFor every man they meet.<\/p>\n
\nBoth governments are acting the same,
\nPower flows to the center,
\nThe soldiers are used, as in a game.<\/p>\n
\nWhile someone\u2019s skimming the cream,
\nThe poor bastards in the trenches
\nLiving a very bad dream.<\/p>\n
\nMaking money by the bucketful,
\nWe\u2019re dying in the trenches,
\nAnd the politicians feed us bull.<\/p>\n
\nAs the papers print nonsense stats,
\nAnd we\u2019re still living in the bunkers,
\nSharing our cots with rats.<\/p>\n
\nMorning, noon and night,
\nAnd we die while taking a piss,
\nYou tell me if that is right?<\/p>\n
\nI also want it to exist,
\nI\u2019m not sure how that happens
\nIf we don\u2019t soon desist\u2026<\/p>\n
\nThere\u2019s one answer we all dread,
\nFight on \u2018till final victory
\nMay well mean we\u2019re all dead.<\/p>\n
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