Where Is Your Homeland? Poem by Catherine Yen

Where is your homeland?

Where is your homeland?
Prior the coming of Dutch
We have been here for a long time
We brought three gifts
Bringing song and dance
On a piece of land without the melody
Singing love and pain
Desire and despair
We brought sweat and muscles
Pioneering in the primitive and vast land of thousand years
Look up the wasteland and goshawk
Grievance and joy
We brought courage
The four hundred years of history
In addition to the national spirit and will
We are almost destroyed

Fire and blood
Missionaries and victims
Ravaged the land of the Han people
Only on the altar of the God of justice
They pretentiously showed the peace
We were at war
We were in marriage
We shared the sorrow
Fighting with Hans who were obstinate, presumptuous, contempt of justice, mercy and truth generation by generation
Ah! The cursed and assailed land
Our song
Our hard work and pain
Our happiness and alerts
Are dedicated to the land
Priceless the gift
Priceless the death
Struggles and endeavors
Lacking of us
Can Formosa become Formosa?