the children of
hong kong are
chinese––
they do not want
revolution––
they want order
in the form of
harmony––
they need to be
what they were born––
chinese
they need to be
what they have become––
independent souls
with minds
of freedom
“paramount leader,” deng xiaoping,
had the wisdom
to provide hong kong
with 50 free years
of one-country-two-systems
without limiting
the future
even so
the power of china
killed at tiananmen
it bludgeoned the soul
of tibet
& blood is still
flowing down the valleys
it is strangling the souls
of the uyghurs in cages
simply for being
now it is intimidating
& preparing to crush
the terrible freedom
of hong kong
to satisfy xi jinping’s
obsession with absolute
control
wisdom is the golden
tradition of china––
the emperor was the son
of heaven––tianzi––
ruling with the mandate
of heaven since the
zhou
xi is more hungry
than an emperor for power
with no constraint
of wisdom
like america––
hong kong was a colony
of the british––
& the people
of both countries
(of all countries)
need freedom
to breathe
by the mandate of heaven
may xi find the wisdom
to let freedom be––
for freedom is waiting
at the heavenly gate––
tiananmen––
the true balance
of east & west––
harmony & freedom
without the hong kong
lung for breathing in democracy & law
the economic greatness
of china
will not survive
for one drop
of hong kong blood
all history will
change