Anna Varney-Wong's Blog – February 2009 Archive (1)

Poem for Burma



Come, friend, sit beside me

on the river bank

Hear the ripples break the stillness

See the leaf bob on the waters



Now lightning strikes the water

A body floats by

And the earth

On which we sit turns scarlet



A child whose face

Is blank with despair

Sits amongst silent corpses

Looking at the murderer

Who does not see, nor hear nor… Continue