Ode to Freedom
in collaboration with Michelle Phillips-Standish
Russian troops perch along
Urkraine’s border
like they’re JAGUARS
poised over prey
Pouncing on global cognition
as carnage of soldiers unfold
How easily forgotten a dictator
Freedom is for the bold
Let the stalks of sunflowers
lay down like barrels
URKAINE will not fold
Where seedlings rest
in un-pressed regulation pockets
The farmer ran away
with the armored tank-
The bombs bursting out of thin air like
gulping, grievances, gorily
Gave proof that our flag, drapes one’s self
Let golden petals fall where they may
We’re still here
liberty without hindrance
Luck will smile on us, without restraint
WORDS are worth a thousand smiles
so speak with pre·rog·a·tive
Enemies will parish,
keeping scopes of friends close
Many flood the streets
against the aggressors motherland
purely in protest-
Enemies in closer range are aware
PUTIN is a global bully
ruling in fear, oppression, violence
As dew does in sunshine,
PUTIN don’t blow sunshine up our asses
Be the ray of sunshine Ukraine
Not all living with this oppression
offer the ember of authoritarian beliefs
They're making spark fly
OUT of outdated belief systems
stoking this regime;
Not a spark of decency-
Collectively using an ember
spark off a revolution indirectly
greatest risk to freedom's personal safety
imprisonment, brutality, prosecution
Evils will not prevail
In the name of freedom;
STANDUP not standby
letting voices be snuffed out
SPEAK OUT for those unable,
freedom refuses to be stifled
Complacency doesn’t end wars
Plant the seed of freedom for all
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About the Creator
Saroyan Coles
I want to empower others with my writing. I have always dreamed of seeing my name, on something.
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