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“A Diary of Occupation”
Vakulenko Volodymyr’s last work
    (Banned in Ukraine) eastern part 20%

Diary of Volodymyr Vakulenko — painful and true records that the writer kept from the beginning of the full-scale invasion and during the occupation of Izyum and his native village of Kapitolivka in Kharkiv Oblast.

Dangerous to the Russian occupation force
A bright and cheery children’s book writer’s remorse 
He said on the tenth day of occupation FSB
“It’s who you remain during all of this” 
Then, buried his manuscript underneath a cherry tree
My heart sinks when I think of Vakulenko and Victoria
A Poet, a journalist   in this bloody war
This is about a writer who’d know what was in store
His hand-written manuscript's underground in his backyard
Russian troops surround his village put him on guard
His life stolen they would pillage,  his books
found and burned and captured him
O Vakulenko, we’ll carry your script   in our bosom
Following his death and the liberation of Kharkiv
Victoria the one his journal of the war would retrieve
Her book of Ukrainians who wrote on the war, her mission
Was killed in an air strike 
Her books by Russia deemed sedition 
Worried he would be tortured or killed,
in the black Ukrainian soil
Her life was also taken in turmoil
Ukrainian man in a war-torn country 
Today I honor thee
Your words shall be read
Around the world spread
America like Russia may do the same
Banning such books unconscionable shame

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