Ukraine

How can the world hold all this pain, the vile hurt done to another; what does mankind expect to gain? Person to person, just like Cain who murdered his brother Abel; how can the world hold all this pain? Nation at war against nation, grasping at any cost for more; what does mankind expect to gain? Does not history make it plain, the consequences all endure; how can the world hold all this pain? If only we could self-restrain, living in peace and brotherhood, what does mankind expect to gain? Today we cry out for Ukraine, victim of her greedy neighbor, how can the world hold all this pain; what does mankind expect to gain? February 26, 2022 An Original Villanelle Poetry Contest L. Milton Hankins, Sponsor