“Even one life is precious”3/Please share for the people of Ukraine!

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Please share for the people of Ukraine! I sincerely hope that this poem will reach as many people as possible and that the invasion of Ukraine will be stopped as soon as possible.ウクライナへの侵攻を一刻も早く停止するため、シェアにご協力ください。
Konosuke Fujikawa Poet Japan
#ukraine #ウクライナ #nowar #戦争反対

“Even one life is precious”
  Konosuke Fujikawa
1914-1918
◆ 16 million
1939-1945
◆ 80 million

This is the number
of people who died in the war

How many people should die
How many years have passed
Can humanity stop this folly?

And again Those who started the war!
Do you hear the screams of those
who flee their cities become battlefields
in your chairs?

Can you really see the tears
of a child dying in the freezing wind
from that warm room?

Weapons shatter
daily routines and hearts
One precious life takes another
so that it will not be killed

“Even one life is precious
and cannot be replaced
by anything else.”

Those who deny this obvious statement
and started the war!
What kind of reason could exist?
Think about yourself,
your family,
your friends,
and your neighbors.
You should understand the weight of this sentence
in the depths of your heart

2022.
◆The number of dead people continues
to increase even at this moment

Those who started the war!
What you take by force
will not be yours forever
Under the Ukrainian sky
Ukrainian sunflowers
will always bloom

Those who started the war!
Everyone in the world, including yourself,
knows that you are the ones
who can stop this war
and save many lives right now.

March 2022 
On the night of the invasion of Ukraine.
©Konosuke Fujikawa

◆◆The following is a Japanese translation of the full text.

ひとつきりの命は重く
  藤川幸之助

1914年〜1918年
◆1600万人
1939年〜1945年
◆8000万人

何人死ねば
何年経てば
人はこの愚行を
やめられるのか

そしてまた
戦争をはじめた者よ!
深々と座るその椅子に
突然自分の街が戦場と化し
逃げ惑う者たちの
叫び声が届いているか

その温かい部屋から
凍える風の中で死にゆく
子どもの涙が本当に見えているのか

武器で日々の営みは
心もろとも粉々にされて
ひとつきりの命が
殺されないために
ひとつきりの命を
殺していく

「ひとつきりの命は重く
他のなにものにも
代えられない」

あたりまえすぎる
この一文を否定し
戦争をはじめた者よ!
そこにどんな理屈が
あるというのだ

自分自身や
自分の家族・仲間・隣人達に
思いをはせてみるがいい
この一文の重みは
心の奥底では分かっているはずだ

2022年。
◆この瞬間にも数字は増え続ける

力づくで奪ったものは
永遠に自分のものにはなりはしない
ウクライナの空の下には
ウクライナのヒマワリは
咲き続ける

戦争をはじめた者よ!
今すぐこの戦争をやめ
多くの命を救えるのも
あなただということを
あなた自身を含め
世界中の誰もが知っている

March 2022 
On the night of the invasion of Ukraine.
©Konosuke Fujikawa