“Let me just ask for life” – My Lai Memorial Exhibit

Please let the clouds hide the fate of my people.

Let me go all the way to a smile.

Please give me the peace to sleep one day.

Let the night not have bullets.

Let the birds give music to the sky.

Let me hear the singing of grass and trees.

Let me just ask for life

One day when children will sing in the mountains.

Please give me just one day.

-From the song “Xin Cho Toi” by Trinh Cong Son (Contemporary)

courtesy of Doug Hostetter

Sources:
– Heonik Kwon, After the Massacre; Commemoration and Consolation in Ha My and My Lai