Poem: A Land

So much force, so much duress

So much terror

Rules a land

Crying out for virtue

All is serious; all is deadly

And yet

It is

All a Play

 

I will return...

 

Note: Florian is one of the many practitioners who were arrested at Tiananmen Square on February 14, 2002. He wrote this poem on the way back from Beijing.

(Original text in German)