Most Venerable Thích Quảng Đức

Thich Quang Duc,
Vietnamese Socrates 

by Drew Logan

They said you were drugged They said you were a communist  They said you were a senile old man     They said nothing about your spirit They said nothing about your courage They said nothing about your compassion     Downtown Saigon, corner of    Phan Dinh Phung and Le Van Duyet Mid-day the eleventh of June, Nineteen Sixty-Three    in front of the entire world-Self Immolation     Lam Van Tuc, the seven year old boy     gave up life as he knew it to become a monk Tich Quang Duc, the sixty-seven year old monk    gave up life as he knew it to become a saint     They talked about dominoes They talked about communist They talked about freedom     They said nothing about civil war They said nothing about Buddhist They said nothing about oppression      Downtown Saigon, corner of     Phan Dinh Phung and Le Van Duyet Mid-day the eleventh of June, Nineteen Sixty-Three     in front of the entire world-Self Immolation

 
 

 

At the Venerable Thich Quang Duc Monastery     Melbourne, Australia You are an admirable historical personage,      a legend     They said you were an ordinary monk They said you were insane They said you did it for the TV coverage     They never said you wrote a letter They never said Buddhist were being persecuted They never said Director of Rituals of the United     Vietnamese Buddhist Congregation     Downtown Saigon, corner of     Phan Dinh Phung and Le Van Duyet Mid-day the eleventh of June, Nineteen Sixty-Three    in front of the entire world-Self Immolation     Your great heart and your great letter are both    preserved Still Buddhist are persecuted in Vietnam My head    at your feet    Drew Logan drewlogan@ravenet.com

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Last update: 01-02-2002

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