Burning Kyiv

    I am a pilgrim

On repentance

A walker, in a sorrow city

                ‘Pietà’

            a destroyed

        Virgin Mary

    torn pages of

                      a bible

on the floor of

a dying place

a cathedral

   on fire

         Of final crucifixion

The last sermon

    the last sins of

      our forefathers

         paid in blood

            paid in sacrifices

And at last

   he says

      “I fear

        we’ve lost God”