Frozen petals

Your beauty
Stands like a rock, like a cliff,
It's revealed chaotically
In someone else's words -
The drama of distance,
A shining soul
In long, metal-filled
Corridors.


Your mind,
Being touched by an earthquake of time,
Is luminous,
Who can understand it?

The idea of freedom
And fear of uncertainty -

The world
Doesn't revolve around your residence
But you've had a narrow view
For so many years.

The clarity of decisions -
The darkness of solitude -

A path
Not paved by anything but
Strength, resilience,
Knowledge, wisdom -

A path so long
Its end is high
In the mountains -

A  path of an amazon
And a wise monk
In a fragile female body -

A game of planets
In a tumultuous
And bright
Lifetime.

* Based on several variations of Aung San Suu Kyi's biography.

This is merely a poetic work and it doesn't promote anyone's interests or diminish the importance of certain ethnic groups.