finger shadows—
silent assassins
grip my pen
 
bomb victim,
your otherness
ends now
 
on deathrow,
your otherness
ends now
 
storekeeper,
your otherness
ends now
 
black driver,
your otherness
ends now
 
unplanned babe,
your otherness
ends now
 
handicapped child,
your otherness
ends now
 
terminal patient,
your otherness
ends now
 
foreign pig,
your otherness
ends now
 
docile lamb,
your otherness
ends now
 
enemy ours,
your otherness
ends now
 
tangata whenua,
your otherness
ends now
 
brother, sister,
your otherness
ends now
 
future life,
your otherness
ends now
 
mother earth,
your otherness
ends now
 
and thou 
no breath at all? 
thou'lt come no more 
 
never, 
never, never, never, 
never more!