Our Country

FINALLY the poet concluded his poem by convincing people to unite and industrious in building the country which is appear in the wrong hand. He innocently alert its people with the ability of his artistic skill. No matter it is recognized by authority or not, it'ld be dearly remembered by people who love the country. It's arguably the best ever made by local talented artist and should be put the curriculum of our school so that our younger generation can understand how big and long our traditional and probably it'll help them in learning loyalty of country.

တို႔႔တိုင္းျပည္ "Our Country"

ထေလာ့ျမန္မာ၊ Wake up Myanmar

ျမန္မာထေလာ့၊ Oh Burmese wake up

အားမေပ်ာ့ႏွင့္၊ Do not feel weak

မေလ်ာ့လံု ့လ Do not prostitute yourself

သူကစ၍၊ Start by one

ငါကအားလံုး Bring it up all including me

လက္႐ံုးမ်ားေျမာင္၊ With the combination of physical strengths

ဉာဏ္မ်ားေျမာင္ႏွင့္ together with assorted intelligent brains

စြမ္းေဆာင္ၾကေလ lets serve for the state

ဤေျမဤရြာ This land and territory

ဘယ္သူ ့ရြာလဲ Whose one is it?

ဤယာစပါး၊ This peddy fields and products

ဘယ္သူ ့စပါးလဲ Who belong to is it?

ထားေလာ့တာ၀န္၊ Take responsibility in whatever you can

ဉာဏ္ေရွ ့ပန္း၍ without ignoring your talent

တ၀မ္းတစိတ္၊ lets make ourselves as a family

ညီေစသတည္း။ in favor of unity of all the races that lead us drive forward.

I am really feel intimidated by this poem as I have done almost nothing for the country I am born. Is it because of my government's system? Probably yes. But we shouldn't make it excuse for staying away from mother land. I'm currently working abroad and feel selfish by doing so. Because most of my fellow citizen are living in the deep poverty. It seem I'm just trying to escape from it. In reality, what I can do for people as an ordinary person? There would be no impact to attempt in changing system. There must be constructive effort and unity as the poem suggest in last paragraph.

The middle east has shown the world that the power of people can topple the decade long junta. But there is less chance to duplicate them as our people are seemingly less educated and lack to access of internet. They are struggling to survive in their daily life. In Myanmar, everybody in the family must work so that everybody can eat. No working, no eating. Believe it or not? Last time one breadwinner at a family enough. Nowadays the trend has dramatically change even up side down. No graduate are granted to get a job as well as to eat without worry. Finally the middle class society gradually disappear and only two society is born by time. This is very poor and mega rich people. The bad system, as usual, produce a handful of tycoon within country by taking full advantage of their familiarity with high profile generals. The relatives of generals are privilege and they can do almost everything. The justice has been lost and the living standard and educational system has fallen free fall to hell. Fortunately we have a country who can generate the most natural resources. But people seems no benefit from it and only the handful of generals share the fruitful of this advantages.

The new discovery make them more powerful and let them become billionaire. People are remain unchanged and eventually rely on international helps for basis things such as public health care and disaster relief, etc. I am not writing this to disappoint authority. I just consoling my soul by writing this pose as a diary. Hopefully you will understand my feeling and thanks for encouraging me by visiting this blog.