by David Watt

Falun Gong practitioners
Ask nothing in return,
And cause no harm to others
Though tortured eyes discern
Indignities abhorrent,
False pretenses made,
Bodies violated
For a gruesome trade.

Cast your mind to hist’ry
When tyrants thought they’d won
Through power of the sword,
The wielding of a gun;
Never realizing
Until their reign was through
That strength through faith implicit
Lives on in longer view.

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Winner of the 1st Place Adult Award in FoFG’s 2018 Poetry Contest

David Watt is a writer from Canberra, Australia. He works for IP (Intellectual Property) Australia.