[MD] Myanmar Today: Quality on the March

[Khoo Hock Aun]

It takes a certain kind of vile to shoot at buddhist monks
They only offered you their loving kindness

In 1988 this certain kind of vile claimed 3 thousand
In 1978 this corrupting kind of vile killed one million
In 1945 this disgusting kind of vile had killed 6 million

In 2007 they were prepared to assail the saffron clad
They only offered you their loving kindness

I tell you when they took up the 227 rules of the Patimokkha
and offered their lives in blameless action
they sought no harm on others

It takes a certain kind of vile for the generals
to be willing to beat up, torture and kill the buddhist monks
They only offered you their loving kindness.

It takes the worst kind of vile there is
to beat up, maim and kill the buddhist monks

It is like ripping out your own heart
angry and hating it to be part of you
full of derision for the blood it feeds you
full of contempt for the life it gives you

And yet the still beating bloodied heart
these buddhist monks, of the Burmese nation
tells you the Generals and the Soldiers
We will pray for you and offer you our loving kindness.