(A) FREE TIBET

Phil Roberts 1957 (Melbourne)



There’s a dream that righteous people have
A hope one day they’ll see,
China surrender its immoral control
So Tibet can, at last, be free.

It’s a hope that decent people have
To see the Chinese gone,
From the country that they dominate
So that justice can be done.

It’s a wish that every good man has
To see Tibet as a democracy,
Without the yoke of Chinese rule
Lord, can the Tibetans ever be free?

There’s a longing in the hearts of Men
To see the end of Chinese rule,
To free Tibet from the overlords
Who have been so monstrously cruel.

There’s a yearning in our hearts and minds
To see Tibetans rule themselves,
But to undo the chains of oppression
The entire world has got to help:

We have to tell the Chinese
That it’s time to free Tibet,
But the day when the UN takes a stand
We won’t see for many years yet.

THE END
© Copyright 2021, Philip Roberts
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

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There’s a dream that righteous people have A hope one day they’ll see, China surrender its immoral control So Tibet can, at last, be free.

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Written on November 11, 2008

Submitted by PHIL_ROBERTS on August 02, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme ABXB AXXC XBDB XDXX XXCX XEXE XXX
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 878
Words 168
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 3

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