Aung San Suu Kyi - English Version

Someone will be set free and stay as eternal

as the green of the dry season

Someone will be set free and be as sour-black

as the monsoon

Someone will be set free and will run

or tire

And the sky will shrink and the stars

Shift

And between the pole of the seven flags and the pale peak

of the pagoda

Someone will be set free

and disappear

But perhaps someone will be set free and see

the dangling stems

stems on the handkerchief tree, stems on the slopes of the road

to Mandalay

(translated from the Indonesian version by Eddin Khoo).

By :

Goenawan Mohammad