I am here
-for my momma, my hero.
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There is a reason I am here
in the world. I can no longer wait
to be acknowledged by someone believing
that this is only for matters concerning the earth
and what’s already done. I am somebody –
once speaking face to face,
man to man, but you dismissed me,
kicking me in my chest and head, again and again, when I appealed to you
speaking the same language
in the routine of torture. You said, shut up,
if you cry, you’ll get more. What was I to do
but stand up for myself. Your threats no longer affect me.
Do you hear me? I am beyond reproach.
What more can you do?
Piss on my bones again?
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Don’t be alarmed, Reader.
I am here to speak
because they are too afraid
to remember, still too stunned to speak out
what are making them cry out at night. (Children, mothers
and fathers now, are still shaking
awake between damp sheets
in the a.m. hours. Refusing sleep
to deny a life of nightmares.)
I am not like them. Did you think that I would shut down that easily?
That I would crumble again and yield
(to bury the hatchet) because now you said
impunity for the Khmer Rouge defectors. That their slates are wiped clean,
each killing dismissed, each life meaningless.
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Reader discretion is advised.
What do you make me of? An animal
again before my frightened children: a ewe
to be gutted-up for your experimental
eating pleasure. You, you, and you over there
in council chair, do you think I don’t know
how many gall bladders it took to dye
your eyes a permanent yellow?
You, you, you, you, you. Whoever is left,
you know who you are. Shame on you,
even now, still having the gall to deny
us our part in our own history book?
We’re a saga, an era of mass slain.
What are you afraid of –
that your own children will see you as monsters?
2 comments:
There is no mercy with the Devil.
The devil cannot doing anything for himself, he can only do it by using human flesh to carry out his wishes.
It doesn't help when people continue to serve the devil and expect good to come from that which is evil.
Koh Tral Island must not be forgotten
By Ms. Rattana Keo
Why do Koh Tral Island, known in Vietnam as Phu Quoc, a sea and land area covering proximately over 30,000 km2 [Note: the actual land size of Koh Tral itself is 574 square kilometres (222 sq miles)] have been lost to Vietnam by whose treaty? Why don’t Cambodia government be transparent and explain to Cambodia army at front line and the whole nation about this? Why don't they include this into education system? Why?
Cambodian armies are fighting at front line for 4.6 km2 on the Thai border and what's about over 30,000km2 of Cambodia to Vietnam. Nobody dare to talk about it! Why? Cambodian armies you are decide the fate of your nation, Cambodian army as well as Cambodian people must rethink about this again and again. Is it fair?
Koh Tral Island, the sea and land area of over 30,000 square kilometres have been lost to Vietnam by the 1979 to 1985 treaties. The Cambodian army at front line as well as all Cambodian people must rethink again about these issues. Are Cambodian army fighting to protect the Cambodia Nation or protecting a very small group that own big lands, big properties or only protecting a small group but disguising as protecting the Khmer nation?
The Cambodian army at front lines suffer under rain, wind, bullets, bombs, lack of foods, lack of nutrition and their families have no health care assistance, no securities after they died but a very small group eat well, sleep well, sleep in first class hotel with air conditioning system with message from young girls, have first class medical care from oversea medical treatments, they are billionaires, millionaires who sell out the country to be rich and make the Cambodian people suffer everyday.
Who signed the treaty 1979-1985 that resulted in the loss over 30,000 km2 of Cambodia??? Why they are not being transparent and brave enough to inform all Cambodians and Cambodian army at front line about these issues? Why don't they include Koh Tral (Koh Tral size is bigger than the whole Phom Phen and bigger than Singapore [Note: Singapore's present land size is 704 km2 (271.8 sq mi)]) with heap of great natural resources, in the Cambodian education system?
Look at Hun Sen's families, relatives and friends- they are billionaires, millionaires. Where did they get the money from when we all just got out of war with empty hands [in 1979]? Hun Sen always say in his speeches that Cambodia had just risen up from the ashes of war, just got up from Year Zero with empty hands and how come they are billionaires, millionaires but 90% of innocent Cambodian people are so poor and struggling with their livelihood every day?
Smart Khmer girl, President Ms. Rattana Keo,
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