Aung San Suu Kyi: My Dark Mother


For you the rivers
wait an endless wait
For you new leaves wait
in the ancient seeds of lullaby
For you the sun waits
in front of a baby-earth
I see everything, while floating
in your primordial water
I will come out and cry
as silence seems to be matricide
in such trembling darkness...


Irom Sharmila, My Daughter


I see people eating
in front of shopping-malls


I see people eating
in front of reality shows


I see people eating
in front of cinema-halls


Only Irom, my daughter,
hematophobic,


hasn't eaten ten years
for only she knows eating


to be homicide
when bread is dipped in read...