Chen's Voice

Be basic about how to learn
Be it sounds
Be it touch
For to find the right key to turn
So it rounds
So it’s such
To hold heads to account for themes
Known for needs
Known for frights
That Dracos thought to be extreme
By what bleeds
By what rite

But deserted by sight had left Chen
So undone
So unsure
The just walls which he had learned when
He was one
He was pure
Wielded the words to confront the forces
Which herded hate
Which chased choice
That clasped cleavers with no remorse
That awaits
Silent voice

Chen assumed a role fit for those
Valued though
Valued not
That became a bane China chose
For it knows
For their lot
To punish mouths making attract
Eyes afar
Eyes about
Honored minds’ sins given the facts
Of what scars
Of what doubt

The state aimed to secure the state
Of feared fraud
Of cruel cause
To maintain the flow to inflate
Pockets’ laud
Pockets’ claws
And control the peasants and pawns
Labor lost
Labor posed
To reveal how progress doesn’t dawn
On lives lost
It disposed

RVM                  (7/07/12)