Laureate: Poetic commentary on the forthcoming Olympic games in China

From the London Daily Telegraph Blog:

U.S. Senator Barack Obama, herald of hope and change says the Olympics are nothing to do with politics, they are only a game and he will attend the opening ceremony. Yet has anything changed since Tianamen Square over twenty years ago? Are mere words on the line since the Soviets hosted the ‘games’ and were boycotted for their invasion and occupation of Afghanistan? Perhaps we are all just players in a pantomime, consistently repeating a tired and worn out pattern…

Tianamen chess: the dancing dragon’s fiery storm,
In dreams, Olympic torch carried from arm to arm
Stiff politic says the flame can do no harm…
Only an ember, a game, yet chased by angry swarm.

In dreams, Olympic torch carried from arm to arm,
Yet illuminating oppression in light of bloody dawn
Only an ember, a game, yet chased by angry swarm…
Dreadful faery light for a fictional animal farm.

Yet illuminating oppression in the light of bloody dawn,
A fire of death, ice cold crushed not warm
Dreadful faery light for a fictional animal farm
See the smiling Chinese tiger of devious charm.

A fire of death, ice-cold crushed not warm
Stiff politic says the flame can do no harm,
Blame the smiling Chinese tiger of devious charm
Tianamen games: the dancing dragon’s fiery storm.

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