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Poetry About Love and the Russia-Ukraine War

Poetry About Love and the Russia-Ukraine War

A child affected by war

I just published a new article on HubPages that includes the poems, Love’s Endurance, and Guardian Angel. I was inspired by not only the Russia-Ukraine War but also by unconditional love’s role in overcoming all war and prejudice.

As I wrote the article comfortably at home and on my computer, I felt grateful and privileged. I believe that love has the power to overcome hatred and adversity, but that there will always be hatred and adversity. Nonetheless, I hope you enjoy my thoughts on these subjects and that you like the article (that can be read below). Your time is much appreciated!

  • Love’s Endurance is a poem about the enduring yet opposing roles that compassion and hatred play in war and strife.
  • Guardian Angel is a poem dedicated to my grandmother, who has enriched my life throughout the years, and who our family has affectionately nicknamed “Ma.”

Love’s Endurance

even in Death, was it enough?
Love: as delusion disables
and countries collapse.

yes, sometimes, it’s just
enough: Love (as young ones
grow, and people pass);

for we possess, what they
inherently lack (embracing
God’s devotion), even as guns
and graves and contracts and
pacts, like Hatred: entrap.

yet nonetheless, I tend to ask:
“Should Love, in times of War
and famine and sickness and
Death, be confessed
by the earth’s unjust

and oppressed?” Of course, yes!
for if care and compassion
could steer the callous
from their wicked
and disreputable path:

Peace may govern
in glorious splendor,
forever, and at last.

Guardian Angel

Dear Ma,

thank you for your love:
unconditional and true,
and thank you
for all that you do,
for me, for those around you.

through sickness and misery,
sheltered beneath your wings:
your love transcends their notions,
and with an open heart’s courage,
fuels our motions.

Sincerely,
Justus


To Overcome Hatred and Adversity

As a young man, I was much less appreciative of the love and support that I received from my family and friends. As I’ve grown older, however, I’ve come to realize that so much more can be accomplished with the help of others. In my life, I’ve been blessed, because my grandmother (who my family affectionately refers to as Ma), has taken me under her wing.

Both Ma and my grandfather, Papa, have protected me during the best and worst of times while encouraging me to live my life to the fullest. They’ve guided me through all the challenges of being an adult. For that, I am forever grateful.

Furthermore, there are other close family members, and even friends, who I wholeheartedly know I can rely on, and who’ve never let me down (despite life’s ups and downs). I’ve known many of these friends for over 15 years.

That’s also why I’m a firm believer that blood doesn’t necessarily run thicker than water. Love will always possess the power to overcome hatred and adversity, but unfortunately, hatred and adversity will always exist in this world.

What constitutes good ethics is subjective, and many have opposing views, but as long as some are unwilling to truly open their heart to empathy, violence and aggression will persist.

I have the utmost respect for the United States military and for those who risk their lives to protect those they love: to support an honorable cause that they truly believe in. Yet the word, “honorable,” in any context, is subjective and means different things to others whose values differ.

Without getting political, I simply wish that war didn’t exist and that the universal language of love and compassion could have a universal effect on the human population.

If that were the case, however, we may just be living in an ideal world – and no person, or at least no person I know, has ever said life was easy.

If it weren’t for those in my life who have stood by me through the good and bad, I’d have lost touch with reality along the way. I’ve lived through hardship, as so many of us have, and would be devastated if I were to lose a loved one.

In this way, I can truly empathize with those being affected by the Russian-Ukraine War. I can barely fathom how some have such little regard for human life. Right now, I am privileged because I am safe, at home, and writing this article, but at times like these, I too worry for the future.

Albert Einstein said:

  • “I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”

In addition, Herbert Hoover said:

  • Older men declare war, but it is the youth that must fight and die.”

Justus Reinhardt

Justus Reinhardt enjoys writing articles, comics, poetry and prose stories. Through his compositions, Justus' goal is to help others by providing awareness to misunderstood topics.

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