Blood on Saffron Robes (poem)

(This poem is dedicated to hundreds of Burmese monks who protested Myanmar's deadly regime of The Generals since the assassination of Aung San, Aung San Kyii's father, in 1947)

there's blood on the streets
whether it be rangoon or lhasa
but it aint just the burmese
or even the tibetans
who are being brutally repressed
by their respective governments,
cos there is blood on saffron robes,
but all we hear from our leaders
is a quiet call to show restraint.
Yet do you think burma or china
will listen to a bunch of people
we elected? I don't think so.
in beating and shooting the monks
burma and china have shown
their disrespect for spirituality,
but this goes especially for
china: times are getting interesting
for you because you have been
oppressing your people, letting
gangsters expropriate their land
for the olympics, and hiding
complainers in black prisons.
and now that Beijing has shed
blood on saffron robes in Lhasa,
all the world can do in response
is call for restraint -- gimme a break.
meanwhile coca cola is still going
to support the olympics,
because it stands to make
a profit from marketing
in China and around the world.
it seems to me that all those athletes
are but means of marketing product,
nothing more, nothing less.
but this time, there is
blood on saffron robes,
and any athelete in Beijing
is condoning such violence.
most of the developed nations
want Chinese products, but
the best product from Beijing
is mass marketing of
the Olympic athlete,
all for blood on saffron robes,
it's such a disgrace.
boycott the Olympics.
boycott Coca Cola.
cos of blood on saffron robes.