The always awake has fallen peacefully asleep
The holding hands have to let go
The final verse of a poem read a thousand times
Follows the last leaf falling
Be it in the era of flames of war
Or in the homeland of emerald green
All have ceased to remain
Save the virtuous and wise leading all virtues
To remain forever in the sky
None has ever heard you make a saying in public
Beyond the Women's Charter
Or the blissful Singapore River banks
In the shining classics of Asia
You have only found a long contained footnote
That after the complete equal of both genders
You say you are a traditional Asian wife choosing
To take respectfully two steps slower than him
The sky is a looking up
At a model a distance far and skywards
The standing is as monumental
The gait as wearing jade ornaments
And the holding fragrant orchids
Looking at the time and space where life changes
Just no one has ever returned from there
As it just can't be helped
Sorrow knows no end for the motherless children
Sorrow knows no end for the remaining parent
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