Know This, O Leaders Poem by ivan kireevskii

and now know this, o leaders
your words will be heard…
carrying forever in our ravaged hearts
the promises, the hype and the fraud

speeches filled with holes
words cut up by scissored scars
the sharpness of stones, cut beneath my feet
as you posture… behind reflections of the mirror bars

brazen acts are dizzying me
diffidence fallen behind these walls
in the haste of angered zeal
forsaken in this power game… unshielded as they fall

nourishing with prodigies and fables
you have deceived and stripped
gnawed away by waves
the remaining vestiges of this splintered ship

stifled in flames and blood
nothing is moving
the noose is tightening
words like worn-out shoes... are spoken shamelessly