For My Comrade, Naldo Rei's Poem
Naldo Rey For My Comrade Today I come to visit you, comrade to wake you up in the morning. You hear the loud voices from the machine guns and the voices of crying shakes you, comrade I come to visit you, Comrade To knock on the window of your heart; To the voices of the guns Listen, My comrade The bullets from the guns have already slaughtered 200,000 innocent people They are the Maubere people Don't let death happen, my comrade Give your time and contemplate without doubt To liberate East Timor from the tyrant Let peace come Let justice come Deeply in your heart I will record your willingness in the heart of Maubere people By Naldo Rei Green Left Weekly Wednesday, December 3, 1997 URL: http://www.greenleft.org.au/node/15862