Pacific Islands Monthly
The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930
Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 September 1974Vol. 45, No. 9

Motherland

p. 66 · Read in the full issue

Page 6666

By Mildred Sore

My body is tired My head aches I weep for our people Where are we going mother Why are there two divisions Why do you bear two different people Can't they all follow your steps Where are they leading us to mother Why can't I be visible and be heard I'm too common to be regarded Why did you create me at all Where are we going mother What is our destination Can't you listen to me for once Can't we change our system With this new technology Where are we going mother Do I mean anything to you mother Won't you listen to me for once I can't bear this burden any longer Where are we going mother What is our destination

"Culture my culture . . "in the form of custom carvings in the grounds of Nicolai Michoutouchkine's museum in Vila, New Hebrides.

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