\A Child Worker of Angkar/
\ /
from morning
till night when i should
have been in school
from morning till night, when
i should be p l a y ing like
a child supposed
to, from morning till
night, when I
should be helping my mother
sunset after sunset,
when I was supposed to
have dinner ---with
My family, night after night when I was to sleep close to
my mother from morning till night my only education was survival in
the "pure society", from morning till night my only
pencil was a shovel or sickle writing the
stories of the revolution and the song
of the jungle, from morning till
night my only book was the
forest i had to clear,
the chunk of land i had
to dig. What for? the only
thing I knew was "angkar,"oh
g o d , a n g k a r, g o d
a n g k a r, f r o m m o r ning till
n ig h t, sunset a f t e r sunset
a f t e r d a ys , w e e k s,
m o n t h s ,
and y e a r s
i w a s forced
t o w o r k ,
w o r k, work,
a n d w o r k
f o r m y
A n g k a r
f o r i was
the c h ild
w o r ker
o f
A n gkar,
my
On l y
GOD