Long ago my
Ancestors knew time
They counted moons
They watched sunrises
No one needed hours
Nor tiny little seconds
Days were enough
Shadows told time
Time was on our side
We were simple but
We were free brown
People of the blue sea
Simple lives uncomplicated
Then a new dawn came
With the shipwreck
Of a ship from the east
Days of the pale race
My fathers and mothers
And theirs and theirs and theirs
Life changed and time
Time was theirs to control
Now life revolves around
A face with endless
Circling hands and ticks
Tocks became rules
Now moons go unnoticed
Sunrises sunsets unlearned
Hearts beat to a new
Time as was known to
My people of brown
Now unsung and
Never untied
Canisius Tkel Filibert (born 1968) Palau
Source: Storyboard: A Journal of Pacific Imagery, Issue 4, University of Guam Division of English & Applied Linguistics, University of Guam Digital Archives and Exhibitions, p. 33
Ancestors knew time
They counted moons
They watched sunrises
No one needed hours
Nor tiny little seconds
Days were enough
Shadows told time
Time was on our side
We were simple but
We were free brown
People of the blue sea
Simple lives uncomplicated
Then a new dawn came
With the shipwreck
Of a ship from the east
Days of the pale race
My fathers and mothers
And theirs and theirs and theirs
Life changed and time
Time was theirs to control
Now life revolves around
A face with endless
Circling hands and ticks
Tocks became rules
Now moons go unnoticed
Sunrises sunsets unlearned
Hearts beat to a new
Time as was known to
My people of brown
Now unsung and
Never untied
Canisius Tkel Filibert (born 1968) Palau
Source: Storyboard: A Journal of Pacific Imagery, Issue 4, University of Guam Division of English & Applied Linguistics, University of Guam Digital Archives and Exhibitions, p. 33
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