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Thursday 19 September 2019

Brothers, your cries - Adi Rumi

Brothers, your cries
are ours too.
Together we taste sadness.
We know,
you are steel-strong nation
not a flower-nation that easily droops.
Even in sorrow,
you never surrender.

Adi Rumi (20th century) Brunei
Source: GLOBE_
Written to commemorate the 2004 tsunami

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