I have held my grounds sad
Even after 30 lives,
I heard and read, set afire
But I am a witness to the last one
Right in the country I am born
So I am thoroughly disturbed
And not really sad anymore now
Is my life that significant?
Is the constant haunting question
Coz I am nearly a peer
To Jamphel Yeshi
Who must have thought through it all
Before he finds himself plunged
Right to the centre of the fire.
So I am thoroughly confused
And disturbed, but not sad.
Radicalization is not a one way ride
Beijing is the killer that lies and prides in it
But we neither lie nor do we kill others
We kill ourselves as the last resort
So I am thoroughly disturbed
And I see no point being sad and a loser
Yes you are right, Jamshey,
A peer I’d call my ‘live’ hero,
As much as you are to all people of conscience,
That you called it a time to give ‘all’ you have.
Although I am a refugee but this body is mine,
One that yearns for that Tibet I am sadly not entitled to
So I am thoroughly disturbed
As I find you so right and true
And your wisdom, tragically meaningful.
Written on March 28, 2012 (The day martyr Jamphel Yeshi died, two days after he set himself alight in New Delhi to call for a Free Tibet.)
