She had to choose between Michael and the boys <br />and the memory of her father. <br />But there was more to it than that. <br /> <br />She went home to Burma to nurse her ailing Mother. <br />She did what good daughters do but her mother died. <br />She made plans to return to her family. <br /> <br />She was two years old when they murdered her father <br />and turned the country into a prison camp. <br />Now the prisoners marched in peace for freedom. <br /> <br />She watched them march and they saw her face. <br />They called to her to take up his work. <br />To save them from degradation and despair. <br /> <br />But I have a family, she begged, and I miss them. <br />But we are forty million and they are only three. <br />She made plans to return to her family. <br /> <br />But they set up a democracy party and put her at its head <br />But I have a family, she begged, and I miss them. <br />By her face and name freedom won a landslide victory. <br /> <br />No MPs took their seats as the army took their lives <br />Some MPs were sent to jail the rest disappeared. <br />She was under house arrest. <br />She never saw Michael again. <br /> <br />She could have gone to the funeral <br />she could have held her boys. <br />But you are the light that shines <br />in forty million hearts. <br />And if you go they will never let you back. <br /> <br />In 1991 She was awarded the Noble Peace prize. <br />The citation described her as: <br />The most extraordinary example <br />of civil courage in recent decades. <br /> <br />For fourteen years she has sat alone <br />In her prison house by the lake. <br />And she must sometimes wonder why <br />in a world awash with choices <br />we don't seem to care. <br />We don't listen <br />we don't do anything? <br /> <br />What age are my boys now? <br />Will you do something? <br />This can’t be the end <br />........ <br />To learn more please go to <br />www.badasf.org<br /><br />Sean Joyce<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-citation-described-her-as-the-most-extraordinary-example-of-civil-courage-in-recent-decades/
