Flag with a Hole
©2007 Gibbens/Weston

Winds of change
Blow again
Flag with a hole

In the town of Timisoara
in December 1989
the people of Romania
rose up against their dictator,
Nicolai Ceausescu,
who’d ruled for two decades.
Then they took their national banner
and they cut a circle from the centre,
cutting out the symbol of the hammer and the sickle,
so the flag of their revolution
was a flag with a hole.
And the hundreds who fell,
the hundreds who fell
in battle with Securitate forces
fell for the flag,
the flag with a hole.

Winds of change
Blow again
Flag with a hole

Curtains drawn
Dawn sun certain
Flag with a hole

Light blows through the shadow
On all who follow
Flag with a hole

Stand and wave
Sad and brave
Flag with a hole

Winds of change
Blow again
Flag with a hole

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