Wish our resolve could be like wild grasses
No matter how they cut and destroy
Soon, re-growing again
And become stronger and stronger.
Chen Te Min—Artist, singer-songwriter, producer, writer, one man band. Youtuber, lecturer, speaker and radio host. The artwork mixes the reactions to society and passion of life. Second generation of Vietnamese and Taiwanese. The parents are from Hue city, Vietnam and Kaohsiung city, Taiwan. These two hometowns are the core of creating backgrounds.
The resolve of wild grasses
Wish our resolve could be like wild grasses
No matter how they cut and destroy
Soon, re-growing again
And become stronger and stronger.
When we talk about the grasses with resolve
It’s not only one plant
When wild grasses stick together for defending enemies
It’s impossible for some inner grasses …
Will against and deny their fight
And say something good about the enemies
And looking bad on the wild grasses
your hard trying is useless, we will die
Just like, they are not a part of grasses
Even if these really exist, every grass knows very well.
They are different, bad grasses
Wild grasses know very well
If we are different
Why should we listen to them, and destroy our confidence?
Of course, if they are spying, it’s another story.
Wild grasses also know another fact very well, we will die now, if we choose not to defend.
Grasses won’t allow others to cut them as they wish, if they fertilize them.
If they can’t live without enemies’ support
Being declared out is just natural.
But the resolve of grasses is not only for them
No matter who dare to bully us
No matter if there is the bad guys want to bully us
The grasses are still growing, regardless.
For what?
For defending the future threats?
Just like the resolve of grasses is for protecting themselves?
Not at all
Not for any special reason
Like growing of grasses is not for any specific purpose
Just for ourselves
Because, having resolve
Just the natural thing.
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Our duty
Making money by our hands, not knees
Don’t listen to what the spies saying and inciting
If you were greedy about the price enemies offer for our freedom
The interests will be paid by children’s future
Until that day, these spies were already flying to the “Sukhavati” !
Leave us here bearing ruled by supremacy
After surrounding, still have to face the war
Peace is impossible made by the country being attacked laying down the weapon
We have no time to escape and being afraid
The liars saying about justice, lots of people still voting to them
Nobody cares about what is real justice is
Double standards, don’t care if you live or die
The pretender is the most stupid
The poser is the most foolish
The one who acts like righteous is most evil
Trying to use the purest color to cover their dirty
Stealing the name ‘Tâi-oân Bîn-chiòng-Tóng ’ just like a fox assuming the majesty of the tiger
Don’t be a fly who attracted by nectar
Being cheated into a trap
Rather being an honest ant
We could make it, step by step
The sticking together mind, nobody can fight with
The bird locked in the cage laugh the bird in the forest always starving
The pigs in the pigpen laugh at skinny wild boars
The worth of live should not only be the weight of meat
Hard working, living on this lovely land
How much is it worth? Isn’t the most important issue
Since 70 + years ago
A lot of elite was sacrificed.
The prosecutor who fighting corruption being assassinated
And who lives in exile and foreign land
Who disappeared after being kidnapped!
Who died outside the library of Taiwan University!
On this island, countless victims
The air of freedom we breathe today
Filled of smell of blood of ancestors
Never forget
We aren’t afraid of enemies, but betrayers
We are afraid of betrayers!
We are afraid of betrayers!
The pen and tongue is uncontrollable
Born to use our mother language
Here is the land raising us
Taiwan is our forever homeland
Don’t be a heartless beast
Selling the mother land raising us
Mouth eats Taiwanese rice, feet step on Taiwanese land
Find no reason to betray our home
These bad guys are just like wood worm and mice
Trying every mean to bite this big sack—— Taiwan
The beauty of Taiwan, never be those bad people’s turn to set the price
One day, we can have a voice
Writing our own history
Expressing the thoughts belong to our real mind
Our souls is here, originally
Using the pen to paint the beauty of this island
Drinking Taiwanese water, singing out the songs of Taiwan
Writing, filming a movie, expressing our mother language
Writing poems with mother language, writing down our daily life
Speak mother language since today
Founding the nation is our duty
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Writing poems with the most comfortable way
Save a peaceful afternoon for myself
Not always have to grab a coffee
But always have to have a delightful mind
Like a dignified, perfect career
Before asking for productivity, taking care of the life quality of employee
Every artwork is the signature dish
Including all of our love and soul
The most important, we and our family, good friends all love it
Don’t care about the cost. But the taste is always the first
Seasoning and ingredient I can bring into full play
No rush. No hurry. Cooking while chatting happily
Soup could be variable
But the taste is always the first
How many poems I wrote today or zero creativity is totally fine
Save some space in life for myself
Creating is supposed to practice the meaning we pursuit
Don’t care how others’ opinions is
Care myself if I am full of smile while creating first
The free, not only the mind, but the environment
Don’t limit your creating paradise only in front of the desk
Riding a motorcycle or driving vehicle is all fine
Just like traveling, the best condition
Is able to hit the road at any time
Destination is flexible
Just like what we what to eat tonight, all depends on mood
During the journey, sometimes we runs into roadworks
We can just turn around to discover the unknown path
Driving the wrong way as taking a look the whole new scenery
Trying out the new food never tried before
Don’t waste too many attention on the unlucky reality
In this day and age, we have internet, we can always find the path
Just like planting flowers and trees
After seeding, fertilizing. Just let it be
We can’t force them growing in hurry
Everything has its own rhythm
Together waiting in patience
Let the poems ferment naturally
Expressing the words in mind by artwork
Practicing the pursuit of freedom by poems
If the demonstrating free will could not make great money
I rather being a free and easy nobody
Writing every word with conscience
The path to freedom we could start just right now
Writing poems with the most comfortable way
Living my life with the most comfortable way.
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