One hundred years ago, our fathers peacefully
Stood up, for restoring the sovereign rights.
But the Empire oppressed the people thuggishly,
They were jailed or dead no human rights.
Seventy years before, they suddenly
Invaded in the name of racial liberation.
But our fathers won and defended the democracy,
In the heap of ashes they constructed the nation.
Thirty six years before,
They had shook hands to resist for restoring the democracy,
And the Power gave way and they could restore
The democracy, but it broke in the public democracy.
Five years before, the Moon
Tried to adapt the people's democracy
In this land, but the old rose the midnight and noon,
Holding the flags for the liberal democracy.
Rainy or snowy, day and night,
They'd gathered at the road and shouted for democracy,
And had caught the dews at daybreak, and at night
Had slept on the road for regaining the democracy.
Today, Seung-Man and Jeong-Hee Square,
And they filled the streets, defending the democracy,
Shouted and shook the flags to the air
For defending this nation's liberal democracy!
(1st, Mar.2023)
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