Mariupol, Mariupol

How Sweet Your Soul

Mariupol / Ukraine with its steel industry, 8 March 2015: Source

Mariupol, the City of Mary, how sweet
your name, how melodiously over my lips it peals.
A beautiful sound to be sung as an ode
to a time long before the apocalyptic toll.

I want to discover your soul, Mariupol, and delete
from my mind, at least for a while, your cruel destruction .
A city…