Year of Darkness

Year of Darkness

Slava Konoval

A snowflake pinches the cheek,
the frost bites jokingly,
the fog is sliding on the ice.

As thunder tears apart a rocket supply,
the heart in pain, strangulation of the throat,
oh, that black fog covered the country.

There are thousands, tens of thousands of them.
Maybe hundreds of thousands
of worldly souls that flew to heaven,
from the sooty piles of smoke from the huts of towns and villages.

God, why such a punishment?

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Vyacheslav Ivanovych Konoval
Poet & Lawyer

Vyacheslav is a Ukrainian poet, which had been published in more than 32 international literary journals. Vyacheslav is a current member of the Geer Poetry Group (Wales) and a member of the Federation of Scottish Writers. You can read more of his work at https://allpoetry.com/Fair_Man 

Photography by Toa Heftiba