today,

I pray

for Ukraine:

for the people who taught me

and accepted,

for the friends and acquaintances who respected,

for the nice and the beauty of the land,

for Holy Mary to defend

the villages and the cities,

for the older and the young

to be happy and lucky,

to be healthy and talented,

to be able to go on singing songs,

to danse, to ebmboid,

for them to avoid

the cruelty of the world,

let the Ukrainian word,

as much as the word of the others under the Lord

be as nice as it was,

in the songs

and the prayers,

in the rays

of the Rainbow of the Peace

over the Dnieper and the Dniester,

over the mountains and plaines,

under the sun and the rains...

I pray

for Ukraine.

Ivan Petryshyn USA