Ukraine- Russia War- Ukraine Needs To Survive - Have Mercy Poem by Bernedita Rosinha Pinto

Mom, he said - I'm in Ukraine.
There is a real war raging here.
I am afraid.
We are bombing all of the cities, together,
even targeting civilians, '
- a Russian soldier in Ukraine wrote to his mother
before losing his life in the war.

Is this what he was born to do
just grow up as a mama's son and die in a war?
Is this what others have to face
when soldiers keep shooting and firing gunshots,
while bombs and blasts take away people's life?

Where is mercy?
where is pity?
what is the gain a leader will achieve
when cities perish and life gets unworthy
when dead bodies and debris pile up
in those streets and cities?

what will he achieve
when homes and apartments get plummeted
and dust and fire rises in the air
depicting a full blown war that rages
where no respect for life nor for nation exists
and no one can overcome their fate?

Have mercy O President Mr. Putin
have mercy on humanity;
there are soldiers dying on both sides
there are people dying in ferocious explosions;
is this humanity, is this respect for life?
is this the time to squander valuable lives
when this universe belongs to everyone
to live and exist as far as life precedes?

How long can they face the brutalities
when they are the people in those cities
when they are all families in their homes
and as bombs keep falling, they keep fleeing
with children in their hands?
what will they eat
where will they sleep?

Have mercy, O' President Mr. Putin
have mercy on innocent people
and stop the war, I plead;
let humanity lasts as long
as their breath and length of life;
please don't let them perish in a war abruptly
as atrocity is not easy to bear.

And as many have already lost
their brethren, their families and their homes;
how will others who survive find a place to rest
in peace with no fear
if the war keeps escalating?
have mercy on humanity, I plead,
Mr. President Putin have mercy
and stop the war in Ukraine, please.

And as soldiers themselves feel so sympathetic
that they have to bomb cities
where civilians get targeted
and lose their lives innocently,
let the war not continue in Ukraine
let life revert back to its sanctity
as serenity belongs to every person
who on this universe walks and breathes;
so Mr. President please discontinue this war,
let peace revive, let mankind survive.