It’s hard to say.
You’re winning.
When your city’s.
Being destroyed.
But its people.
Like Leontovych’s music.
Are displaying.
Extraordinary resilience.
The director of.
Pokrovsk’s History Museum.
Has already salvaged.
And transferred.
Most of its prized possessions.
To safety.
– including artefacts from.
Leontovych’s life in Pokrovsk.
‘Mordor’, she says.
Doesn’t just want to.
Take ‘elves’ territory.
– “It wants to destroy.”
– “It wants to destroy.
Our culture.
And everything.
Precious to us”.
It’s hard to say.
You’re winning.
When your city’s.
Being destroyed.
But its people.
Like Leontovych’s music.
Are displaying.
Extraordinary resilience.
She says the people.
Of Pokrovsk understand.
They may never.
Go back.
“But our heart and souls.
Do not accept that”.
Hence they’re doing everything.
They can to preserve the past.
The new motto is.
“Keeping and saving.
Equals winning”.
“Keeping and saving”.
It’s hard to say.
You’re winning.
When your city’s.
Being destroyed.
But its people.
Like Leontovych’s music.
Are displaying.
Extraordinary resilience.
Leontovych’s life came to.
An abrupt end in 1921.
When he was shot.
By a Soviet agent.
His composition had become.
A symbol for the fight.
For ‘elves’ independence.
It still is.
It’s hard to say.
You’re winning.
When your city’s.
Being destroyed.
But its people.
Like Leontovych’s music.
Are displaying.
Extraordinary resilience.
*Because I read “The famous Christmas carol inspiring Ukraine’s defenders” by Jonathan Beale on 24 Dec 2024, and also “Why are Ukrainians calling Russians ‘orcs’?” by James FitzGerald on 30 Apr 2022, on the BBC news.
So, I wrote this poem, including a story of Angelina.
Please read the original story on the BBC news:
