Hoping to get our true feelings out, but in the end lies replaced everything that we once felt for each other.

While Chang’s murder served as a relief for Rose and Maung Ba, they felt that the element of danger wasn’t over. The economy continued to deteriorate. To the Burmese nationalists, bad news served to bolster their agenda that it was time to press ahead toward rebellion.

I wrote this poem when my marriage was deteriorating. There was a lot of anger, resentment and pain. I sat down at my old job and was thinking of my feelings and this is what I wrote.