Resistance

By Konai Helu Thaman

We are like songs Sung out of tune You and I.

We sit around And drink Beer and whisky Indifferent to the rain That brings life and colour And washes the dusty pavement; We talk about things That do not matter And dream of lives That are not ours.

We are hostile To imagination And change And we cling To petty customs That uphold our right To maltreat our brother And strip him Of his human rights Because of an accident Of birth.