Never..... Poem by RIC BASTASA

for all those terrible
events
and those that happen
almost everyday
for all the talks of horrors
about the dangerous
lives that we live,
for all those uncertainties
in these islands,
its history of emaciated old
brown population
those past occupation and
oppression in the guise of
benevolent assimilation
education and democracy when
one day we all woke up with
all the resources taken,
shall we be shaken?

No, never, never, never.