Marionette

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Measured between the chokehold

And the wire,

Or string.

The bodies that held hands,

Congregated around the scholar ring.

Grievance or grovelling

Falls on closed ears,

Enveloped the ambush of dozens of hands

Who sailed away on their Sam Pans,

Pacing away their fears.

Frightened, a foreigner stood

With her back bound straight.

Strained, a whimpering heart 

Bled, together with the frolicking feet that fled,

Ransacking the waters she waded in,

Wincing in the red.

A voice we heard, which wiped our vision of a clean 

Slate,

Slamming the ammunition, until our anger fasted,

Ridiculed, ruptured, resting on a puppeteer's string:

marionettes, to the orders of Xi Jinping,