Yin’s “The Bumi Bird”, from his “Poems of Protests and Resistance”
The Bumi Bird
My wings are clipped
My legs now weak
My belly full
How to fly?
The songs I sing
A mournful trill
Of freedoms forgotten
But longed for still
Black and Yellow birds
Freely ride the currents
In thunder, lightning and in rain
The winds gentle
Then violent
Their fate uncertain
Yet they take their chances
Let me out
From this gilded prison
Enough is enough
I will take my chances
Free me from this
Cage of dreams
Shouts of Ketuanan
My nightmare screams
Take away my empty title
Prince of the earth
And all that prattle
Let me spread my wings and fly
With the others through the sky
Through weather fair or foul
I will take my chances
Prove myself
Learn new songs
In tune with the others
Uncage me
Let me soar through the sky
Lest this Bumi bird
Like the Dodo die. (The views expressed are those of the contributor)
By Yin,
(From: Poems of Protest and Resistance)
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