No Place Exists In The Universe By That Name
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No place exists in the universe by that name
A little Chinese boy of seventeen
Jiang Jillian, he did sacrifice
His life for his dream cherished.
A bullet from an army gun pierced
His little heart, took his young life
The day after his seventeenth birthday.
His crime?
He stood for democracy,
What he believed was his right!
He fell to legalised terrorism
By the government machinery
He was one of the fourteen hundred odd
Young boys and girls died on the fateful day,
The third June Nineteen eightynine.
A drop in the ocean!
A mighty drop...
Liberated from the labyrinth of
Authoritarian autocracy
Called, look at the paradox,communism
By the People's Liberation Army-
army that liberates those in power
From the tearful voice of a few
Thousand young quivering lips.
Marx turned in his grave with eyes moist
And his heart bleeding red, I am sure.
Holocaust* repeated, Yet again.
The proud mother of young Jillian,
Ding Zilin, the Tiananmen Mother**
Tears dried, she does not cry anymore.
Her husband was committed to jail
Being Father of Jiang Jillian.
Anybody heard of Tiananmen Square?
Where on earth is it, by Mao Tse Tung?
No place in the universe by that name.***
*Reference to Nazi Germany. Holocaust in Greek, means "sacrifice by fire". The word is apt here, for "fire" it was, from guns.
** "Tiananmen Mother" is a movement of the relatives of the students who died in the Army firing of 03 June 1989.
***The Chinese Government even today refuses to acknowledge the massacre of 03 June 1989.
Aside:
I am carried away by Asterix comics, wherein, is said, the Gauls refused to acknowledge the existence of the place, Alesia, where Vercingetorix, the Gaulish chieftain surrendered before Caesar. Julius, that is. Pleaseread "Asterix and the Chieftain's Shield".
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