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Editor’s Note: This poem was written in May 2009 during Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s years of detention. It reflects the hopes and emotions of that period in Myanmar’s history and is republished here as a historical literary work.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Written in 2009 by Kaung Kin Ko)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Happy Birthday, Aunty Suu<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mother,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You are the moon
that stubbornly shines
from within a soldier’s boot,
a space narrower
than the hollow of a bamboo stalk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mother,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You are a song
strung together with wounds,
a song whose echo
can shake the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The story of your life
has kept our courage boiling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The words you spoke
have stained our blood
a deeper red.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We shall pull a poem
from your heart,
forge it into a sword,
and cut our way
through this forest of demons,
Mother.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While blood-hungry ogres
carve power into stone
as their only measure of success,
marking authority
upon the rotten hulls of their lives,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

you listen,
with a heart full of compassion,
to the cries of the people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You are a little bird
caged on University Avenue,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

the leader
of all the birds
denied the right to fly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Though you cannot fly,
your name
soars high
at the edge of the sky.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Surely you long
to spend that name,
that precious name,
for the people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If the people’s love
were flowers,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

every citizen
would offer one bloom,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

and the garden of your life
would already be overflowing
with blossoms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is their fragrance\u2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n

however much malice
tries to cover it\u2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n

its sweetness
fills the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The demons,
still clutching their guns,
force themselves
onto burning thrones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How cowardly they are,
Mother.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unable to face you,
unable to compete with you,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

they isolate you,
tear your pages
from the book of history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yet your image
has already been tattooed
upon our hearts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No matter what others say,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

so long as you remain yourself,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

we will love you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You will always live
within our hearts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At this moment, Mother,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

are you quietly weeping
inside your home
for the children who have fallen?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Or perhaps
for your children adrift
upon an ocean of suffering,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

are you softly singing
songs of prayer and loving-kindness?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We wait for the day<\/p>\n\n\n\n

when your gentle hand
will once again rock
the cradle
in which we lie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mother,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

you are the sky
above us all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We long for the days
when your rain
will finally fall upon us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mother,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

you are the mother
of us all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We long to see
the garden
you dreamed of planting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 Kaung Kin Ko<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kaung Kin Ko<\/strong><\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

2009 \u1001\u102f\u1014\u103e\u1005\u103a\u1010\u102f\u1014\u103a\u1038\u1000 \u1000\u1017\u103b\u102c\u1015\u102b\u104b \u1021\u1032\u1012\u102e\u1010\u102f\u1014\u103a\u1038\u1000 \u1006\u101b\u102c\u1019 \u1012\u1031\u102b\u103a\u1019\u1031\u1004\u103c\u102d\u1019\u103a\u1038\u1000 VOA \u1019\u103e\u102c \u101b\u103d\u1010\u103a\u1015\u1031\u1038\u1016\u1030\u1038\u1010\u101a\u103a\u104b<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Happy Birthday Aunty Suu!!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

( \u101b\u1004\u103a\u1011\u1032\u1000\u1021\u1019\u1031 ) – 2009- May – \u1000\u1031\u102c\u1004\u103a\u1038\u1000\u1004\u103a\u1000\u102d\u102f<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u101e\u102c\u1038\u1010\u102d\u102f\u1037\u1014\u1031\u1010\u1032\u1037 \u1015\u102f\u1001\u1000\u103a\u101c\u1031\u1038\u1000\u102d\u102f<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u100a\u1004\u103a\u101e\u102c\u1005\u103d\u102c \u101c\u103d\u103e\u1032\u1015\u1031\u1038\u1019\u101a\u1037\u103a\u1014\u1031\u1037\u101b\u1000\u103a\u1010\u103d\u1031\u1000\u102d\u102f \u1019\u103b\u103e\u1031\u102c\u103a\u1014\u1031\u1019\u101a\u103a\u104b<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u1000\u1031\u102c\u1004\u103a\u1038\u1000\u1004\u103a\u1000\u102d\u102f<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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