I say, ‘It looks like its going to rain’, on my face a smile
Rain, it was going to rain… it hadn’t in a while
A drop turned into a lot, then turned to a downpour
It was the cyclone Nargis on top of a civil war
I didn’t know what was happening, the news hadn’t said a thing
Of course the news was controlled by the Junta, the military general a king…
How were we to survive the oceans wrath upon our lives?
Drowned was as dead as being shot with a gun or stabbed with knives…
My wife looked scared, as scared as I was inside
‘We’ll get through this,’ I said, yet deep inside I cried
How many days and nights went by as this water dragon ate our land?
My land is now an ocean, a desert of blue watery sand…
I saw it in front of me, the water that ate the earth
I wept for those around me, the death aiding my tears new birth
Why had the world forsaken us? Us few who dared to hope?
With all those who died around me, how did I think I’d cope?
Oh they made reports and said they’d help, the government always does
But when it came to disaster, life goes from is to was
Do you know what its like to see your life die in front of your eyes?
Do you care at all about us here, who lives or who dies?
Do you care that thousands died because of political reasons?
Political reasons? That is your argument?! That is rain outside the monsoon season!
What are the politics in life or in death? Even politicians are just corpses when they’re dead…
Even the Junta must be human, there must be some humanity inside that general’s head!
Or is it the heart that I should search for? In a ruler of country titled Myanmar
He who sold rice taken from a starving nation, King Dictator Sultan Tsar!
They who bought are no better, I wish you unhappiness before you go to hell
I wish the General an unmarked grave as his final funeral bell
I am named Burma, a country of much suffering
My wife is the justice in this land, I watched as she lay dying
Justice will live again, though that day may be far
This tale of bloodied Burma and murderous Myanmar
Thursday, September 4, 2008
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