A Song to Drown Rivers

by Ann Liang

“It is quite a different thing to help someone when it puts yourself at risk.”

It is the cruelest fate for the gray-haired to bury the dark-haired.

One could live with almost anything, so long as they had something to live for.

In a world where everyone will demand something from you, it requires a certain degree of selfishness to be happy, you know.”

They assumed their money protected them from everything. The ultimate injustice was that sometimes it did.

Why does it seem to me that the court’s idea of a lady is a beautiful, dull shell who has no personality and makes no sound,

How many women throughout history were blamed for the weaknesses of men? We made such convenient scapegoats. We were raised to be small, to be silent, to take whatever we were given and no more.

How many were able to witness history as it unfurled?

So long as we continue to put mortal men on thrones and hail them as gods, sacrifice our lives to their legacies, history will repeat itself.