Yellow Waters erstwhile again
There was a dark time and a restless spirit
It's a long way to the east, something started to happen.
Where the falcons, in the chaotic fields, began to flee
And hearts are burning, and the sword is sharp, and the brother is not my friend!
Chmielnicki leads his comrades to battle.
The Cossacks are already cooking, fresh regiments forming
The Tatars are already coming to Poland
Yellow Waters are behind them, broken, open country!
Combat cartilage, men and horses screaming, sea of blood.
It's not a spring summertime aura of qualities.
It's a gift story, the ends of a card, these are the Fathers of life.
And over them a sinister dragon roars! Sleep picks up, wakes up the kids!
Ages go by, generations go on watch.
Słowacki's bell strikes, the nations comfort each other
Already, the Slavic pope is rushing to help.
Now it's all right for us to have stubborn hearts!
Wet ground torn with thousands' shoes.
They hurry from all directions, smiles of joy
In the rays of the sun, they become hopeful.
They pray and sing, they trust! God will win.
Perhaps the hearts are simmering, eternal love passes.
The Holy Father stepped in not rapidly but slowly
He looked, greeted, prayed to the Lord.
He kneels on the treasure of the world's Nations, breaks the discorded bone.
This time there's a winner, like snow white
In the hands of the Holy Father gentle, fragile, small
Eucharistic Christ, Undefeated King over Kings
He comes to his heart, heals and kisses tenderly.
The kids are running, and the baby's like doughnuts are already laying hands
The fresh future is rising over Poland and Ukraine.
Not an ideology, but a carpenter from Nazareth, one more time reconciles families
And the moral: “My merciful son, cast distant darkness and sorrow.”
Holy Father John Paul II, in eternal remembrance!
Sławomir Tomasz Roch 1 February 2005 Stock
P.S.
I wrote this poem with a vivid memory of St John Paul II's pilgrimage to Lviv to Ukraine. The Latin Mass took place on 26 June 2001 . The faithful warmly and warmly accepted the Holy Father intertwined with Polish-Ukrainian shouts "Long live the Pope." The mass was bilingual, and the homilie John Pawel II delivered in Polish. He appealed to Poles and Ukrainians to break distant from the "pained past" and in the spirit of common respect they forgave each another for their erstwhile harm. "Christians of both nations must go together in the name of the only Christ, to the only Father, led by the same Spirit, who is the origin and rule of unity" - said the Holy Father to 300 1000 believers, over whom hundreds of Polish and Ukrainian flags were flying. I was expected to be in Lviv with the Zamośćan coach pilgrimage. I attended this solemn Holy Mass with the Pope and faithful from Ukraine, Poland and many another European Nations. I visited the Old Town, the Cathedral of the presumption of the NMP, the Łyczakowski Cemetery and the Lviv Orląt Cemetery. How much hope there was in us at the time for a better future, for a better relation between our peoples.
Sorry! Ukrainians of the cities of love one more time chose neo-Bander ideology. In time in Lviv, Tarnopol, Stanisławów, Łuck, Kiev and many another cities portraits and squares called the names of the bandera, Shuchewycz were swarming with red-black rags. The streets were repeatedly full of screamed young Ukrainians and Ukrainians who screamed in the sky: "Smert Worocham". That's how they sow death, and present they reap death! And again, our Polish hopes ran out like a soap bubble, proved one more time a thick naivety. Today, an innocent blood call of the OUN-UPA genocidals: ‘The fame of Ukraine’, It's average there and almost national holiness. The chances of our full, actual reconciliation in my opinion are gone, gone. Neobanderan Ukraine has established its ideology in a heroic fight against Russia, but it is simply a highly dangerous ideology, besides for us Lachów. Today, they request us, it's draping, but it won't always be. The fierceness, the anger of the Ukrainians present is visible to the bare eye and can easy turn our way. Time, as usual, will verify everything, show the actual face of neo-banderism and ourselves, and may it not be a fresh genocide... for mercy sits on the throne of righteousness.
The Pope’s Homilia, entitled “Let forgiveness be shed!” Voiced during the beatification mass of 2 Polish clergymen: the metropolitan of Lviv, Archbishop Józef Bilczewski and Zygmunt Gorazdowski in Lviv and many another valuable news about the papal visit to Lviv and Ukraine are available at this address: ]]>https://www.lwow.com.pl/pap.htm]]>
