Words to a Russian Soldier

Russian soldier, throw down your arms.

Turn around and leave Ukraine.

Are you proud of what you're doing--

Of all the innocent people you've slain?

 

Have you lost your dignity?

Your actions there will be your disgrace.

If you stand in front of a mirror,

How can you look at yourself in the face?

 

Doesn't it faze you when you hear

The cries of the people, day and night?

When homes and schools and hospitals

Are bombed, don't you feel contrite?

 

Have you lost some fellow soldiers

All because of Putin's lies--

Even though he calls his war

A military exercise?

 

Were your buddies' dying bodies

Left behind on the streets to rot?

Can you fathom the repercussions

Of what's going on, or can you not?

 

Are you proud of laying waste

To cities and towns in your neighboring land?

Human compassion: Could that be

Something you don't understand?

 

Stop doing Vladimir Putin's bidding!

Refuse his atrocious orders. Rebel.

Put an end to war crimes there,

And tell the tyrant to go to hell.

 

-by Bob B (3-24-22)