To You Whom I Admire Poem by Latha Prem Sakhya

Your sacrifice
To redeem a people
Fill me with pride-
To be part of the same humanity.
Yet it shames me – a passive witness
To your torture of body and soul
For a cause so noble.

Spanned by geographical bounds
I cling on to your invisible hand
To partake in your struggle –
An empathizing, smouldering volcanoe,
Expressing my solidarity,
So that your sisters and brothers
Soon taste the air of freedom.
And live without fear.