Author's website Alexander Korotko

When the Creator

gives countries and peoples

large areas,

countless natural

wealth,

then He experiences these

countries and these peoples.

And the nations these trials

do not withstand.

And it turns out that the gift

was undeserved.

And what does it mean that

Ukraine

granted pain.

It’s not this pain

like a favor, like a concession

idle life,

like a reproach to the cynical,

sinful reality.

Don’t know.

But I know for sure that it’s not.

such a sun

which would not rise.