Wednesday, April 11, 2018

Death by grain

Treated worse than dogs
The food they grew stolen
Sold by the dictator to show the world
That his system worked
Look world
Look at all of this grain
Enough to feed the masses
Growing abundantly
Even in Ukraine
Yes it grew
Despite the truth
That a famine was ongoing
And the Ukrainian farmers
Grew enough for themselves
Stalin, named for steel
Hated their wild spirit
And committed genocide
By starving them, and killing them
By withholding
And exporting the grain they had grown
Death by wheat
From the highest of power
To the least
Irony was never lost
Stalin was a beast
Nearly 4 million did die
The state was ascendant
Stalin was able to name the hour
Of the Ukrainian spirit's doom

HOLODOMOR