YEAR OF THE GHOST

A'karikz Yannaing

This year……….
I've got two teenage kids to send to university
They're both with a new teen spirit and ready
I think they practice too much about Rangoon City

This year……….
My two arms look stronger and steady
My new farms look browner and wealthy
I'll work hard and reduce my middle-aged fancies
On this two arms,
One wife's desire is nicely treated and healthy
On this two arms,
Three children' future is wisely guided and openly free
On this two arms,
Five lives of one culture is simply founded as a family

This year……….
My wife wants to celebrate bronzed annual wedding
And I want to be a temporary monk and stress free
Our good kids will be away from us but I'll be worry

This year……….
Our town has reached enough saved-money
To built a standard high school permanently
And everybody is so proud of our soccer team
For bringing the state championship trophy

This year……….
Our eldest son will come out from political prison
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This year……….
I no longer be a householder or manage all the duties
My wife no longer talkatively talks about her girlish dreams
Our children no need to go and study for their aimed degrees
This year,
We, our self and the whole town were destroyed by cyclone Nargis!

This year……….
This year was wiped out from the calendar extraordinarily
This year has drown and died under the water of catastrophe

This year……….
This year has nothing left to say but ghost stories
Son, you are my only sun after my sunset, KEEP FIGHTING!


[A salute to all the political prisoners who have lost their families
During unfair sentences inside of Burma's a few deadliest prisons!]

A'karikz Yannaing
24 May, 2008