Tibetan Sadness

Tibetan Sadness

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Waiting 

On the other side

Friendship Bridge

Nepal and Tibet

Crossing Point

Occupation 

Apprehension

I am a solitary traveller

Borders are lonely places 

Soldiers with guns and white gloves

These soldiers are no Friends 


The children come up to me 

Everywhere in the world 

Children are the same

Embodying hope for the future

Tragedy

Grow up then crushed

Where is hope?

Nomads of the mountains

Soldiers with guns

Mishandle Tibetans

Wishing to be porter's

Their families starving

Rain comes

With it I feel deep sadness

All that was is now passing

Soon, it will be a memory 

No more


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Written in Tibet many moons ago.

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David Penn Arndt

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Picture by David Arndt




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