Remembering Baba Thaung

Hmmm…
It is difficult to write about Baba Thaung
He is the one that I care and who loves me dearly.
He has gone now from this world
There are very few people I can personally connect to
He is one of the most of my concerns
He was a Communist
He was a government servant
He was a lawyer
He got no home
His pension was not even enough for one day expenses
Poor like hell
When his wife Kyin Kyin, who also loved me so much alive
They lived in my grandmother’s house
After the wife died, Baba Thaung was kicked out by his own sister, my grandmother.
He had no place to go.
I didn’t have enough money
to support him for everything he required
like home and living expenditure
What could I do?
Myself didn’t have a job
I could only support him from time to time
with some money which he can spend for a few days.
I felt so sad about that.
I felt so sad about that.
I still feel so sad about that.
He is gone now
He may be happier now than ever
He was a very strong-will man
But he did not have the money to pay his bills
Government has done nothing for those old-pensioners,
who serves for the nation for their entire lives
the entire system of my country got many things to repair
Government should care for those old-pensioners
They deserve the decent living standard after their retirement
Contemporary country’s situation is bound to unfair
the gap between the rich and the poor is higher than ever
Increasing corruption is the day to day life style of the Burmese
How are we gonna solve this?
More questions to be raised than I can get the answers