One Day
One day life was normal.
The next flung into fear.
One day our houses full
Of things we hold dear.
Now the towns are scenes of death.
Invaders seek to steal our breath.
Our cities pounded into heaps of rubble.
We huddle in basements safe within our bubble.
One day life was normal.
Once we had a home.
Once our lives had meaning
Sweet as any poem.
One day life was normal.
The next flung into fear.
One day our houses full
Of things we hold dear.
It will rise again,
Out of the ashes.
We will build again
And heal the hideous gashes.
Opher – 21.4.2022
I’ve spent the whole of my life in the modern world without being touched by the terror of war.
The wars seemed to happen in other countries far away, to people who were not like me.
War seemed primitive, a relic of the past.
It felt that we had been up trade and relationship to such a level that war was inconceivable.
Then the Ukraine happened.