Dear Baolin,

I'm no poet; so I can't comment on the poetic aspects of your poems.  However I can certainly speak with emotion to the theme of your work.

To me, heroines like Miss Zhang Zhi Xin and Miss Lin Zhao forever live in our hearts.  Their blood was not shed in vain.

From Rou Shi to Zhang Zhi Xin to Lin Zhao and many more thereafter, history really plays a mockery of us.  What a sad thing, that is, for us, for the soul of the nation.

On the other hand, I'm also for one believe in forgiveness.  It's sometimes futile and even counterproductive to pin the responsibility of collective sin onto an individual.  When the two Germanies reunited in 1989, I believe the smartest thing the German government did was to put all the files of the former Democrctic Republic of Germany's secret police off limit for good.  Let the bygones be be-gone.  Only then can the soul of a nation be rekindled and re-vigorated, so that we don't forever live with a victim's complex.

That's just my two cents, Baolin.

Thanks again,
Aihua

PS. There is a wrong word in your second poem.  I think you meant "diary" and not "dairy."  Diary is a daily journal.  Dairy is used to describe milk products.