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Tired

Cover artwork by Arina Stetsiuk, age 13

Iryna Tsisaruk

October 19, 2022

Department: Poetry

Issue: Citizenship

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Do you know that I got tired?
I got tired of myself and the war life . . .
Tired of not being needed . . .
I can’t live like this any more.
Hysterics and troubles all the time.
I got tired of enduring it all.
I just wish to stop it all.
I wish to stop the sufferings,
The cries at night,
The soul pain . . .
Forget everything or
Just continue living.
My heart is broken into pieces
I’m torn because of all this.
I can’t live like this any more.
I can’t stand it any more.
I don’t want anything except for the peaceful life.

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Iryna Tsisaruk is 14 and lives with her parents and younger brother in Kremenets, Ukraine. She likes drawing and painting when she has free time. She enjoys writing poetry, too.