though we are all human
we are made to be different
by forces beyond our clout
yet they want remake us
in a new image of their choice
in a village too big to be safe
the world they now call
a single village in the globe
with a big brother to match
as long as we are second class
within that large village fashioned
we should not be subjected to
someone’s standards
someone’s culture
someone’s technology
someone’s understanding
someone’s world view
someone’s theories and concepts
they try hard in harder ways
to make us part of that village
but we know we are different
and shall strive to live outside
that fashioned unsafe village
May 7, 2001
