Xi Didn't Start the Fire

By Ariya Das

Bye-bye Soviet, Yugoslavia,

Hello Bosnia, Croatia, Serbia,

Macedonia and Slovenia,

Protocol in Montreal,

Fall of the Berlin Wall,

Two Germanies reunified,

Europe is Unionised,

Jailed Mandela is freed,

End of the Apartheid.

Tiananmen Square rests in peace,

Al Qaeda, Middle East,

Iraq, Syria, Palestine,

Terror on the Airline,

Libya, Yemen, Iran,

Americans in Afghanistan.

Never forget 9/11,

Tokyo, Madrid, 7/7,

Bolts from Usain,

Barack and Saddam Hussein,

Michael Jackson, Princess Di,

Large Hadron Collide.

H1N1, feeling ill,

Tensions with Kim Jong-il,

Gulf War, Oil Spill,

Fallout from Chernobyl,

Lockdown, Covid, Vaccine,

Mask, Distance, Quarantine,

Putin’s inside Ukraine again,

When will the inflation end?

Xi didn’t start the fire, It’s always burning,

Since the world’s been turning,

Xi didn’t start the fire,

But when we are gone, It will still burn on and on.

By Ariya Das