Ian McKellen reads a poem called The First Letter to the Corinthians.

It was written by Artur Dron, Ukrainian Defender, writer, poet.

Please listen to it. These words are powerful and true.

"Love digs trenches and lives in them, gnawing on ice from a hacked up plastic bottle. When it suffers thirst at minus 20, love goes out on combat duty, enters firing positions with hernias, fever, prostatitis, with vast concussions, asthma, and allergies, with a high probability of not making it back.

And sometimes love closes its friends' eyes, wraps them in sleeping bags, and carries them away. Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease.
Where there are tongues, they will be still. Where there is knowledge, it will pass away. Because sometimes when the shelling ceases, friends close love's eyes, wrap it in sleeping bags, and carry it away.
And then it passes on to the living."

(I've quoted my post with another essay by Artur Dron. If you haven't already, I strongly recommend that one, as well.)

📹: Ukraine WOW