"Two Men and Empty Chairs"
by AP33912
The June 4th night
A man
A boy's father
A fugitive in running
Still had his students blood smelling
Forced to run far away
Through labyrinth in darkness
Only a little dry food left in
his broken backpack
His wife prepared a few months ago
In the months of suppression
The polices chased him around
Hiding day and night
Only to find a narrow path north
from Beijing 一 Tianjin
En routed to Russia then
He lost in forest
near the border in North eastern
A farmer saved his weakening life
Ran south under stars
after his resurrection
To cross the Pacific occean.
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Also in the night of suppression
Another man
with a loud voice rising
A lone warrior stayed in capital Beijing
Unable to save his friends
Arrested and sent to prison
A tearful wife left by his death bedside
An empty chair in military hospital room
An empty chair in Stockholm.
STARS (this French police saved student leader)
Stars ---Les Miserables (Act 1a)
for actor named Javert (a police)
There, out in the darkness
A fugitive running
Fallen from God
Fallen from grace
God be my witness
I never shall yield
Till we come face to face
Till we come face to face
He knows his way in the dark
But mine is the way of the Lord
And those who follow the path of the righteous
Shall have their reward
And if they fall
As Lucifer fell
The flame
The sword!
Stars
In your multitudes
Scarce to be counted
Filling the darkness
With order and light
You are the sentinels
Silent and sure
Keeping watch in the night
Keeping watch in the night
You know your place in the sky
You hold your course and your aim
And each in your season
Returns and returns
And is always the same
And if you fall as Lucifer fell
You fall in flame!
And so it has been
And so it is written
On the doorway to paradise
That those who falter and those who fall
Must pay the price!
Lord let me find him
That I may see him
Safe behind bars
I will never rest
Till then, this I swear
This I swear by the stars!
