A question to You ( poem )

A question to You :

though thou did praise poetry not,
and make us all once thought,
these mystic musings have no place
in our once squeezy space,

yet you have drove us out 
of po(v)e(r)t (r)y no doubt.
and gave us a new space 
for That we thought no place

That has had given You, 
the comfort need by you,
when the dearest to you,
could have been be with you,
but darks days off in lieu, 

as balm to the sorrows of you.
That which was once denounced by you,
and the theories and words of you,
may now not ring so true for you, 

our Mr Lee Kuan Yew ;

You have given us 
much Luxuries that we 
once thought, when our 
nation was birthed, we 
can never afford, beyond our 
wildest dreams. And for quite long it's time that we
forgive ourselves and re-embrace that which we 
may have once sacrificed and (stronger) together we  
Ask you :

Do you,
realize sincerely that That which You  
thought we
Cannot afford yet you

Must ?


Aw Ke Shen, Aug 2022

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