In Memoriam: Lin Zhao

I always wish I could lay a sprig of plum blossom on Lin Zhao's grave. A single bullet that was worth five cents in her time ended her life. It also began her legend.

When alive, she was already known to bite more than a few bullets, idiomatically speaking. For a young woman, that's a lot. For this young woman, that's a daily affair - and her days were numbered.

To compensate for her shortened life, she lengthened her bright dream in a dark age.

I don't know if the dark age she died in is over. I only know that the bright dream she died for isn't.

林昭

敢正乾坤敢守真，自由魂出死囚身。

獨鳴夜海啁啾曉，交響冬原霹靂春。

驚蟄眾聞龍在野，平居誰念鳳歸塵？

江山血淚中華墨，灑滿芳碑一字仁。

（平水韻上平十一真）

江靈颺原創