Another Invocation Poem by Gert Strydom

"It is God who alters the times and seasons,
and he removes kings. He gives wisdom to the wise
and knowledge to the discerning." Daniel 2: 21


More than thirty percent of power stations
in the Ukraine are destroyed by Russia,
its terrorist acts are condemned by nations;
Putin only see knights and tradition like Prussia,

while only evil as a terrorist kind of state
through-out the last hundred years are known,
as missiles and kamikaze-drones do strike,
in acts of atrocities that civilised men hate,
with its terrorist friend Iran Russia is shown,
where in acts, rhetoric of lies they are alike.

2
In Kherson after withdrawal Putin plans a savage act:
nuclear or chemical it will be just another atrocity,
it will not change how nations do Russia see;
he wants with a nuclear weapon to attack.

In mindset Russians are hundreds of years back
as if by pillage, rape, and force they can be,
where these acts stand against them to eternity
and it seems sub-human they do values lack,

as if nothing good do come from people like this,
where cut down to three men while surrounded
without supplies Russian soldiers do die,
where we do the goodness of normal people miss,
as if Russian society is only in evil grounded,
where in decimation Russian lives passes by.

3
Russian society does not want Ukraine to be
and instead of winning the world for God
with weapons in destruction they do salvation see:
in colonialism they are extremely at odd;

do not value common and decent human rights;
as the civilians in Ukraine are devastated
and still bravely in Ukraine people fight
as they are against a Soviet system that they hated,

while to Putin and his people there will be a reckoning:
a come-back to which karma is not blind
but in Russia deaths and oppression do sting,
as normal people struggle a way of life to find:

like in any country there is the great and good,
the evil, the vile, the savage and those misunderstood,

4
while now my God in all of this I call on You
to act before it's too late, to change times and seasons:
while putting leaders in and out is what You do
and Putin might be full of hope with his reasons

but above all princes, mortal men You do reign,
do only bring that which is beautiful and right:
where in nature You do all of live sustain
and Your ways are not in darkness but in light.

I beg You the hardened hearts of men to change:
to give empathy in stead of envy and strife:
by a single act or word You can destiny rearrange,
You are the essence of all goodness and life;

do set revival, peace and great mercy to come,
where we live in a world that is gruesome.
© Gert Strydom