Wonder Children

We grew on orphaned kenkey

And physically impaired kalami

But the dawn 

Never died in our dreams

Once we were the hunted turtle

Whose every cell made our predator

The master of our clan-

Maiming souls

Crippling spirits

Quenching hopes

Shuttering lives,

Long ago

We were the mineral rocks

Broken to extract the wealth

And dumped on the offshore,

We dwelt among pigs

Dinned with birds

Slept with mosquitoes

So long ago

We were the last desires

Of a world growing

On blood and flesh

On bones and marrows

On tears and chains

But dawn came

Restored the smiles hidden

Under the scar of yesterday

So they now see us

The Wonder-children