We stand and wait here, once again, And listen for the northern men, Who’ve come once more to make us slaves Or else to thrust us in our graves. We hear the rumbling tracks draw near, We grip our rifles, white with fear, We crouch down, keeping well apart, Each one with terror in his heart. Yet none will run. We will defend Our little country to the end. We will resist the tyrant’s spawn Until they leave, or we are gone. There’s not much hope of help or aid. They have their missiles, my grenade Can only do its bit of harm And nothing throws it but my arm. I will not live no longer free, And so they’ve come to murder me. We’ll stand and buy time with our lives For elders, children, friends and wives. We are Ukraine. We have survived. We kept our culture and we thrived When our slavemasters ran away. But they are coming back today. The jets roar over, rockets shriek, The tanks grow closer, I grow weak My rifle rattles out in rage. I’ll choose the coffin, not
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