Ukrainian Truce Poem by Dmitry Garanin

Shares are rallying on a glimmer of hope.
Businesses are counting future profits
from the treaty achieved after a new conflagration,
culminating in talks talks talks…

This is a new roadmap to stability,
underpinned by the dampness of the ink
on the paper signed by the parties involved
or their patrons who are denying direct involvement
in the effort to advance their cause
and extend their reach in protecting the innocent
who disregard the sovereignty of another state
already divided into dominions
in the plans of strategists who are thinking big.

This truce brings an opportunity
that should not be missed by anyone
whose interests are at stake
in selling more peaceful products and services,
while the guns keep silent
and increasingly lethal weapons
are being smuggled in,
harbingers of an all-out war.

New York,12 February 2015