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!