Chinese-Swiss poet Yang Lian has dedicated the following poem to the courageous demonstrators in Hong Kong as protests in the city enter into the 14th consecutive week.

Yang Lian: To the People of Hong Kong You are the stars, we are the night;

You ignite, we extinguish;

You are Han, we are traitors;

You are tears, we are dead with apathy;

You are heading towards death, we are dragging out an ignoble existence;

You take to the streets; we shrink into our sofas;

You bleed for tomorrow; we live in degradation for today;

You cherish the preciousness of love, we cling obstinately to the price of life;

You were not born thirty years ago, we have rotted after thirty years. [Chinese]

A short bio of Yang, excerpted from his website, has been translated below: