my dear girl, you are made of blood and stone. you are colored in black and you are made from love. you are from explosions you are from rubbles. you are of darkness and light. you are from sleepless nights in basements and corridors. you consist of "be careful" and "I'm alive". you are a news feed and you are a full-flowing river of our voices. you are loud. you are Bucha and Irpin. you are an exploded bridge. you are Azovstal survivors and Mariupol demolished. you are Izum and Kherson. you are a nuclear power plant under occupation. you are a peninsula where freedom was killed. you are Kyiv with Russians around. you are Kharkiv and 12 air alerts per day. you are Donetsk and Luhansk, you are on fire. you have been on fire for so long, my girl. you are Maidan, you are the barricade, where the dead victims were carried. you are the anthem and the corroding silence afterward. my dear girl, you consist of deaths and martyrs. you are one of the newborns in the basements, despite fear. you are anxious and you are calm. you are 9,000 dead Ukrainian soldiers. you are 10 millions refugees. you are sweat and dirt under broken nails. you are a portrait with a black stripe. you are a woman who was raped by the occupiers, the silent one because you are buried. you are a family of evacuees that was shot. my dear girl, you are love. you are love even in times of war. you are a short "how are you?", you are empty railway stations and checkpoints with no time for hugs. you are a bouquet of white flowers 5 kilometers from the front. you are the morning with no rockets. my dear, you are freedom. and you are stronger than death. be careful, my girl. I promise – I will too. Happy Independence Day, Ukraine, my dear. #ukraine #ukrainewar #ukrainenow #standwithukraine #russiainvadedukraine #деньнезалежності #independenceday