Tune: A River in Red On Air Toronto to Hong Kong By Kong Shiu Loon, summer of 2013
The silvery bird soars
Above all clouds float
Leisurely gallantly it goes
Lo the expansive sky
Serene luminous fine
My mind opens valley wide
Twenty-three days I visit places familiar
Forty-six years what ups and downs my career
I went abroad to seek knowledge to apply
My venture was not to keep wings from flights
Now that I had gone through the universe
I dedicate to promote world-wide my Chinese culture
What events in the old country
Deliberating current scenes and resent history
So much had changed for people
Their souls afflicted ample
How I watched cultural legends and lore destroyed
How I anticipate old values reaffirming with joy
Whence a delightful grand purview presents
New colours intense