We Are With You

As i was preparing to write the statement for our demonstrations i was reading the information related to the arrests of the leaders of the 88 students generation. One article had a tremendous effect on me and it prompted me to write a tribute for their bravery. This poem is for them.

We Are With You
(a poem for Nilar Thein and Kyaw Min Yu**)

They jailed him for fifteen years
To break his heart and bones
They locked her up for ten years
To break her bones and heart

A cowardly act, a disgrace in disguise
A soldier of brutality and despise
A killing machine in the waiting
No way, you can’t break them down

They may have fragile bodies
But their spirits are unconquered
They maybe weak physically
But their soul is whole and free

What is it there to be scared of?
Why freedom and democracy
Can’t be as sacred as life?
Why respond with cruelty and brutality?

Like birds they will soar
The walls and bars will roar
Heaven and sky will cry
It will crushed the hell in the eye

No amount of acts can justify
No amount of words can purify
No amount of silence can terrify
Everyone is heeding to fight and defy

Nilar Thein and Kyaw Min Yu
And at least a dozen more of you
Might be in Insein**prison so we construe
Keep those fires burning alive for we are with you!

* The couple Kyaw Min Yu and Nilar Thein were imprisoned for 15 and 10 years respectively. They have not been out of prison for very long but Kyaw Min was arrested again on August 21 along with dozens protester against fuel increases imposed by SPDC without notices. His wife is now in hiding to escape arrest too. They have a four month daughter.
**It is the notorious and infamous prison in Burma

And the protests in Burma continues...