– Pictured, Tina Chang (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tina_Chang)
Ascent of Asia
I am haunted by how little our children
Know, what we have done
To each other, to those we deemed
Beneath us, to the Earth…..
How a republic falls and how
Democracy can lie, how News can be distorted
How money hides its debt
By printing more, by pretending we are alright
Or worse, an old idea of Nationalism
Idols of a world out dated, euro-centric
I’m haunted by how little
Millennials realize Asia is the new Queen
Why do they not learn Mandarin, Korean?
We forever think we are the center
Of the globe, but I’m not a daughter
Or a son of East or West
I am haunted by how little writers
Write about revolution, about change
We cannot always repeat what others have said
We cannot always unravel in our
Personal voice, there’s a secret stairway
To broader concerns, more existential themes
There, the ultimate fiction is reality
There is a new world ready to be born
Will you join?
Wuji Seshat 