The Moya View
The eye feels the light, the lens knows the truth:The children silentunder a blue tarpamongst the rubble— their little backpacks still on their backs offering the hope they still might stand upthen, the beat—and the realization that will never happen.You want to look awayyet you can’t. You must look closer.You must look for longer.Again and again you must be the essential, indisputable witnessto things no humanbeing wishes to see—The line of strollers left at Przemyśl station by fleeing mothers carryingtheir infants in their arms,a less brutal more hopeful image connecting in solidarity mothers divided by geography and circumstance.And yet, there is the uncovered mother and child who died face up in the square amidst the brightest sun,the bloody pregnant mother being evacuatedon a stretcherwho stop you in first gaze and mid-breath,who demand you to act, demand you to respond,when you see the mass graves of Mariupoland know you can only think of those of Babi Yar.
The famous Ukraine war photos referenced in this poem can be seen by visiting the following links to them: https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/tv/2022/03/08/ukraine-family-killed-irpin-why-photo-matters/9431379002/https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-europe-edf7240a9d990e7e3e32f82ca351dede/gallery/c78c87d51b064e789bfa4449de274703https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/09/europe/gallery/mariupol-hospital-bombed/index.htmlhttps://www.reddit.com/r/poland/comments/t83lrj/moms_in_poland_left_their_baby_strollers_in_rail/https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/mother-killed-with-children-while-fleeing-ukraine-identified-as-silicon-valley-employeehttps://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-maternity-hospital-pregnant-woman-dead-c0f2f859296f9f02be24fc9edfca1085https://www.haaretz.com/world-news/europe/.premium-on-anniversary-of-babi-yar-massacre-newly-released-photos-shed-light-1.10258666
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