Ukraine Poem by Sheena Blackhall

Now the war drums beat in wintry Ukraine
Will the blood lust spread like a crimson stain?
Make Europe a charnel house again?
In the insane greed for power

War & Pestilence thin the flanks
Of humanity- Covid, Russian tanks
Words and entreaties, firing blanks
Ignored in the greed for power

Two world wars and nuclear arms
Should fire international alarms
It's always the innocent bear the harms
In a neighbour's greed for power