A Picture of Lee Ying From Emblems of a Season of Fury by Thomas Merton She wears old clothes She holds a borrowed handkerchief And her sorrows show us the papers have bad news again today Lee Ying, Only 19 has to return to China Days on foot with little or no food the last six days On water alone now she must turn back 300,000 like her must turn back to China There is no room say the officials in Hong Kong You must go back where you came from Point of no return is the caption But this is meaningless She must return That is the story There is no place for her And no point for thousands like her There is no point Their flight from bad news To worse news Has caused alarm Refugees suffer And authorities feel alarmed The press does not take sides We know all about the sorrow of Lee Ying One glance is enough We look at something else She must go back where she came from No more need be said
Posted on: Fri, 28 Nov 2014 08:25:03 +0000
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