BURMA DIGEST

                      A Campaign Journal for Human Rights of All Ethnic Nationalities in Burma          03.12.2006

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THERE MUST BE A WAY

By Feraya

 

Is there no way to stop them doing what they do?

Is there no way to stop them hurting so many people?

There must be a way to show them that their way is wrong

There must be a way to make them change their way of thinking…

 

Is there no way to show them the right way to do things?

Is there no way to show them the right way to be?

There must be a way to let them see that there is an alternative

There must be a way to change their mindset…

 

Is there no way to persuade them to listen?

Is there no way to persuade them to care?

There must be a way to encourage them to be wise

There must be a way to show them how to solve their problems

There must be a way to tell them things cannot go on this way.

 

Everything they do should not be motivated by greed or hatred

And citizen’s lives regarded as less than worthless

Mindless and inhumane, cruel and savage,

They kill human beings without any qualms

For goodness sake, how much longer shall we put up with this?

 

We can go on hoping and praying forever

But haven’t we waited long enough?

Yes, for decades we have tried almost everything

We have tried to reason with them to no avail,

We have collected petitions,

We have demonstrated,

We have written to world leaders,

We have been put in jail,

We have been tortured,

We have been raped,

Our friends have died, fighting for their rights,

And all the efforts we have put into our cause,

Haven’t brought us to our goal.

 

How much longer can we afford to be patient?

How much longer do we have to wait?

Haven’t we been patient long enough?

Haven’t we waited long enough?

How many more people will have to suffer without reason?

How many more innocent people will have to die for nothing?

How many more decades do we want to put up with them?

Isn’t it high time we did something radical to stop all this?

 

I don’t want to be patient any longer

I don’t want to have to wait any longer

I don’t want more innocent people to suffer

I don’t want more people to die at their hands.

 

There is a saying which is sad but often true:-

“If we always do what we have always done,

We will always get what we have always got.”

 

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Comments:

Nyunt Shwe said _

One of an excellent poem. In deed, we urgently need a change for our country. As you've said the people have been suffering for years, long long enough to end this dilemma. The partial, but very important message is included in your poem. It is this: “If we always do what we have always done, We will always get what we have always got.”
I could not elaborate here how we should take a different path, the path that would be taken by few, as Robert Frost's “The Road Not Taken". Well, thank you for giving us not only beautiful but also food-for-thought poem. I wish you for future success.

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