Three Years On In East Timor by Francis Duggan

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Three Years On In East Timor

Three years year on in East Timor and they are re-building Dili Town
The houses and the businesses that the Indonesian militia burnt down
These so called emergency soldiers poor East Timor did destroy
Whilst the Indonesian military to stop them did not try.

Three years on in East Timor but what's to celebrate
It came at such a heavy cost the birth of a new State
They can replace the houses and life goes on they say
But they can't bring back the murdered innocents in unmarked graves they lay.

They can't bring back the murdered innocents they are gone forever more
And the poor of poor East Timor no better off than before
Their separation from Indonesia they are still in poverty
Is this the price for freedom of so called liberty? .

Three years on in East Timor and all is far from well
And the poor traumatized survivors have been through living hell
And though they can replace the houses the dead forever gone
And not much use to them now if their names are living on.

Francis Duggan

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Alison Cassidy (2/2/2008 1:07:00 AM)
This one reads like the lyrics for one of those sixties folk songs with 'meaning'. Great poem about the waste - the awful waste of war. I'd like to write some music to accompany these words. Excellent poem. love, Allie ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥

... ... (2/1/2008 11:27:00 PM)
I am always astounded at the wording of a 'civil' war.... thanks for drawing attention to another anniversary... keep at it, Another Peace at a Time

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