The White and the Black

Two worlds make two cultures
that make two countries
that make two people

You and I are those two people
for all that has gone on in our worlds before us
we are now as different as we can be

Yet if you scrape that pallid skin of difference from us
set its essence aside
then we are the same
we are kin

Today as two bulls - one white one black
fret and prance and set their stage for war
we say they are different
but not to a blind bull

For as long as it is necessary
may we all be just a bit blind

For it is often only in our blindness
that we can clearly see into our precious little world

COPYRIGHT © 2003 - Richard Anderson


Richard Anderson
17 March 2003
Kuala Lumpur