Displaced people exchanging pieces of
their shattered love
with friends and family at the station.
Those left behind
Forge those shards of loss into love of country,
sharpened and breast pocketed
over hearts beating with courage and hate
and told by their blood
to seek the blood
of their oppressor.

Stephen Tilden is retired and giving voice to yet another outrage that we are facing.

Editor: May we all work towards peace so that no blood need be shed, Ukrainian or Russian or otherwise.