<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=423439" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Malaysiana - Straits of Malacca</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">straits of malacca, <br>the treacherous divider<br>between Malaysia, Sumatra.<br>a line between poverty, wealth.<br>a storm beats into the sea tonight, <br>lightning outlines a motorboat<br>negotiating its way<br>through the crashing undulating waves<br>furious as if angry at trespassers.<br>the straits that has deceived, <br>taken countless treasures over the centuries<br>from the cruelest of pirates, <br>to the greediest of colonisers, <br>tonight seems hungry for human souls<br>dousing out the light behind the tunnel<br>for penniless, hunger striken sumatrans.<br>The human traffickers<br>in their anxiety to turn away from sea police shove them off like logs<br>pointing to Malaysian shore<br>indistinct as their fate<br>their cries muffled<br>by the bitter cold waves <br>and rattling engines.<br>the motorboat that has promised a dream<br>tonight decides to chart it all into sea.<br>yes, arrival at Malaysian shore<br>albeit in waves few kilometres off.<br>The sorrow of the sumatrans<br>could only be seen on their<br>scowled faces as their corpses<br>float down the straits, some<br>lost, some fished up.<br>Like the waves of the straits of opportunities<br>that continue pounding the shores, <br>this illegal trafficking continues<br>punctuated by such heartstirring drama<br>that subsides into the backside of the brain<br>as soon as the next wave crashes onto shore.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+Tiong+Chunghoo">John Tiong Chunghoo</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=423439" data-title="Malaysiana - Straits of Malacca de John Tiong Chunghoo" data-description="straits of malacca, the treacherous divider between Malaysia, Sumatra. a line between poverty, wealth. a storm beats into the sea tonight, lightning outlines a motorboat negotiating its way through the crashing undulating waves furious as if ang..."></div> </div> </div>

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