Natalia

A housekeeper and gardener  of Kyiv

Every second remembering her holiday last year at Tel-aviv

Still feeling food aroma of Cafe David & Habib

Now could not find a place to escape early death in Kyiv

Many stories are written in war

Takes decades to become folklore

Thousands still to account for

No one can calculate the emotional damage to pay for

Natalia at 18 gave her heart to her schoolmate

Whom everyone in class used to hate

It started with marriage rather than with a date

Their love was first-rate

Hired a house on the outskirt of city

As the view was pretty

Natalia also got two sleepy kitty

To these two she looked with pity

Then she conceived a child

For no reason, Russian autocrat grew wild

Her husband was down with a fever little mild

But to save the city he left his wife and unborn child

Natalia had to leave her house and garden

Under the care of a drunken warden

Invaders captured her husband and shot him in the head with no pardon

Oh God why you asked her to carry such a heavy burden

Nataila went to catch a train

Which was cancelled due to heavy snow and rain

Feeling pain which will burst her body and brain

Cruel destiny put a homely tender woman under such a strain

Lucky to escape the war city at last

All alone and  except memory nothing to accompany from  past

Reached to London, a city so vast

She doesn’t understand a word from the daily BBC war broadcast

Why she was born and for what reason

To Natalia God committed very high treason

Oh my 'Natalia' how will you last, cruel summer of this season

There are only tears for you lifelong , with no dry season