By Florian Akbar

A Land

So much force, so much duress
So much terror
Rules a land
Crying out for virtue
All is serious; all is deadly
And yet
It is
All a Play

I will return…

Note: Florian is one of the eight [among many] practitioners who were arrested at Tiananmen Square in Beijing on February 14, 2002. He wrote this poem on the way back from Beijing.