Ifeanyichukwu

Cry, my beloved Kyiv

bring back the blue skies
coloured red 
by rages of bloody wars

 

bring back the shiny sun
made pale by weary plumes 
of greedy need 

 

so my heart can meet with your\'s 
bickering aside 
division away 

 

so our children can play in winter\'s hands 
and sunny haze 
oblivious of the masquerade 
ghosts steering behind

 

so that we can display 
our beauty  
fairly and squarely 
in our once safe streets 

 

o tell me it\'s a dream
we wake to another world 
another reality realer than dream
patched up in Kyiv hills

 

like another life unlived 
we dance to unfamiliar song
sad one in Babylonian rivers

 

like white stallions stumping around
in the southern plains of Ukraine 

 

will stones direct our paths from city to sea
and in whispers decree our creed 
in secret 
that holds the fishes in harmony
and restore our reality
in fine lines of peace