RCoDD welcomed 20+ Daventry & District based Ukrainian Friends, Family and their hosts to a typically English Afternoon Tea. Hopefully this is the start of many activities that RCoDD can do to make our Ukrainian guests feel welcome.
We have received this information from Olga Kostiuchenko one of our Ukrainian Guests that we entertained on Saturday Afternoon
This is Olga's family before 24th February 2022.
Olga's son, Kiril Kostiuchenko, the author of the lyrics and music, and singer from the 2nd minute
And I will never forget the way home
That took me to my friends and to school
I will not forget the last time from Ukraine
We drove it and now there are mines
How are you there, good
Only sirens wail
Do you remember how it smells?
Spring morning
Smoke in the air
And hands are dirty
Couldn't wash them
Those who violated
24th dawn
Say hello
Everyone I know
I'll hug you soon
The land is stagnant
All good to me
My family and I are close
Every next day
We are on a foreign land
I would like to go home
But there is nowhere
The time will come
Let's get back on our own
And I will never forget the way home
That took me to my friends and to school
I will not forget the last time from Ukraine
We drove it and now there are mines
I want to go to a house where I know who is coming by
the sound of slippers
I won't be back soon, no one is waiting for me
I lost everything that I had, but I'm looking for
myself
And viburnum blooms on the ruins of my ancestors
And time seems to flow around, instead of floating
And I tap the keyboard with my fingers, and the rain
keeps falling
My soul somewhere in Ukraine cries out: "where
are you?"
But I'll be back very soon, I'll pick you up
And I don't know what awaits me tomorrow
It's like I'm alone here, but there's a crowd around
me
My soul is cut like a desk at school
I can still hear how they prayed and chanted mantras
I understand that all these words are worthless
If only I could influence it, I would compose a
hundred songs
All I want is for the people to go to sleep peacefully
We will return home by road tomorrow
But we will not become slaves
No executioner will execute us
The only ones from north to south
And from east to west
You wasted months
We have been crucified for years
We have been killed for centuries
But we finally became stronger
And I will never forget the way home
That took me to my friends and to school
I will not forget the last time from Ukraine
We drove it and now there are mines
Sadly this photograph is of Kiril Kostiuchenko's, the singer and composer of the song, home in Ukraine bombed and burnt out by the Russians
And below is Olga's super daughter in a shelter at the end of February 2022
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