Please Go, Children! In Beijing's Northerly Wind

Ms Yu Xiuhua (余秀華) is a poetess with raw talent, well known in China today. She hasn’t got good education as born with cerebral palsy in a poor family [1]. She wrote this Chinese poem, as shown in the image, when Beijing evicted its migrant workers, being called as the “low-end population” by the regime, in winter in 2017 [2].

My first translation was completed, as well as the reading in December 2017. In this post, some minor text changes have been made. The term "high-end" refers to those people who has got money or power or both. For people in the free world who romanticise communism (or the name of socialism), this poem should be a wake-up call, to say the least. 2021-01-09

Leave the sunshine to tomorrow
and let the high-end worship
Leave the happiness to tomorrow
and let the high-end joy
Leave the hope to tomorrow
and let the high-end fulfil their wishes
O please also leave your desperation
to the high-end
and that will be their hopelessness

A low-end is narrow-minded as a low-ender
and a kind person has the tolerance of kind-hearted

Footnote:

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yu_Xiuhua
2. https://qz.com/1138395/low-end-population-what-you-need-to-know-about-chinas-crackdown-on-migrant-workers/