Pacific Islands Monthly
The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930
Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 December 1975Vol. 46, No. 12

Live In Me

p. 50 · Read in the full issue

Page 5050

By Albert Leomala

fathers of father and fathers of mother where are your bones and where are your stories I search the book over trying hard to find your faces I listen to the oldtime stories hoping to hear your names fathers of father what made you leave and what made you sell our land for sticks of tobacco fathers of mother who separated you from mothers of mother then chained you like wild dogs fathers of father and mothers of mother your sufferings live in me.

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