Cry Burma

Freedom went

So long ago

Democracy died

Along with state

Their leader and mentor

Aung San Suu Kyi

Tried to create

Evil tyrants

In khaki dress

Fire the bullets

Into human flesh

Ripping out freedom

With chunks of lead

As Monks and Nuns

Lay dying and dead

A puppet state

Of China

Next door

The Generals

With soldiers

They employ

But forty years

Is far to long

Military rule

They can’t defend

China must make

This nightmare end

Peter Wicks

I wrote this poem so many years ago in the hope that it would keep this brave womans memory alive....