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Lest We Forget

Amid the Gaza horrors

Sometimes we might forget

That in beleaguered poor Ukraine

Its people suffer yet

This nation's only crime It seems

Was living cheek by jowl

Next Russia led by Putin

Whose aims are only foul

Upon his peaceful neighbours

He cast his greedy eyes

Invasion his ambition

Their land his hoped-for prize

And so he sent the tanks in

With missiles from the air

Waging war on innocents

This despot didn't care

But yet he met resistance

His forces soon were stalled

Zelensky roused his country

For help from West he called

From battered towns and cities

The refugees then fled

Left behind once peaceful homes

Left behind their dead

While husbands, sons and fathers

Carried on the noble fight

Striving to be resolute

Against Red Army's might

They had some minor victories

Some land in South regained

But yet despite their bravery

The enemy remained

We thought the Russian people

Might hang their heads in shame

Hearing of the war crimes

Committed in their name

And yet their tyrant's grip on power

Is so extreme that he

Makes them ignore their own death toll

And boasts of victory

Opponents he eliminates

They die or rot in jail

Elections are a mockery

Dissent is doomed to fail

In Moscow he now lines up

Captured armour wrapped in lies

An architect of falsehoods

This devil in disguise

He hopes that we will tire of aid

And turn our thoughts elsewhere

But we must never lose resolve

Just show we'll always care.

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