Actions in South China Sea

South China Sea is now the new frontier of war

And bombs and missiles guided from afar

Are pointed at deterrent systems there

That are meant to retain a hegemony of the hemisphere.

China’s grown child and cousins are now a source of stress

For from the “One China” policy some now seek to regress

And the Mainland indignant of such move

Stand ready her errant relatives to reprove.

Where will this end? We do not know,

Except to say the family circle is a scene of anxious foes

And those who crave to have a say in the conflict of the hour

Must come face to face with the world’s latest super power.

And those who harbour now the dream,

To test the potency of the mainland’s politburo and regime

Must consider her determination to repel

The decision of her relatives who are seeking to rebel.

And those who doubt the mainland’s will to fight

Must now look towards the sea and see the gathering might

For the systems that are set up in South China Sea

Are meant to bring opponents to their knees.

Out there upon that eastern sea

The mainland shows just what would be

The end of those who interfere

With her and all the lands and sea she holds so dear.

With gallant will she mounted in the sea

A defence platform with as many trappings as can be

To secure, she says, her interest from the foes

Whose will to fight she appreciates and knows.

Look at China’s flagship vessel and her strut

With fire power eloping from her guts

And war planes landing on her elaborate deck

With missiles and all she needs to kill and wreck.

Beneath the heaving waters, there the politburo and regime

Have hidden in the open sea, sophisticated submarines

With all the stealth and power to deliver

Artilleries that could make a hardened soldier shiver.

But ah! Fierce powers are now refusing to sit down

And allow the Mainland to dominate the hemisphere alone

And it seems to me that whatever it takes

They too shall establish within that sea, a stake.

Navigational freedom is what the intellects call it

Those who at the claim to hegemony throw a fit

And there and then declare their own right and might

That contradicts the claim to hegemony that the Mainland cites.

And these fierce powers believe the mainland’s claim

Equates to theirs and is very much the same

And on the premise of that castigating note

Such fierce powers entered forbidden spots and move about.

Twelve nautical miles off Triton in the Paracel Chain

Was how close USS Curtis Wilbur went and caused a strain

With the mainland which did not pause or hesitate

To let the western power know she went too far beyond the gate.

And if such was not enough to cause a stir within the hemisphere

In defiance to the mainland they have vociferously declare

Their intentions to sail upon South China Sea again

Even though the mainland their brazen act continues to condemn.

The JS Izumo is on its way with intentions to reach South China Sea

And romp within the waters even if China disagrees

For they too with unfeigned bravery have come to challenge

What China says is clear and unpretentious knowledge.

South China Sea in this my time has grown

Into a potential disastrous and fearsome military zone

That one solemn forbidden and unwelcome day

Could become a battlefield of intense harrow and dismay.

So now the world must search for lasting peace

Before the first shot or missile is fired or released

For any day that sea begins to burn

It will be more catastrophic than anyone may discern.