Rehan

Really Want To Go Home

by DagaNow (Paiwan/Rukai)

Indigenous Peoples straying in the city

Do not have much luxury to dream

Blood with special mark flowing in the body

Do not know if tomorrow will still be the same

Indigenous Peoples living under uncertainty

Wounded souls want to go back to their homeland

Have been reluctantly in disguise for so long

Do not know if tomorrow will still be the same

Really want to go home

Really want to go home

At the end, Indigenous Peoples are all the same

Young men earn their livings in city factories

Young girls are forced into prostitution

Realized that life is no easy task

Do not know if tomorrow will still be the same

What will be the future for Indigenous Peoples

To speak of it made my heart feel sore

Ask for the answer made my heart go panic

Do not know if tomorrow will still be the same

Really want to go home

Really want to go home

At the end, Indigenous Peoples are all the same.

http://aboriginalrights.suite101.com/blog.cfm/paiwanrukai_aboriginal_poetry

This poem is about how Aboriginals have a very different day each day. The theme is that they do not know if the next day will be the same and how they want to go back to how their life was before the British arrived. At the end of each paragraph, the writer says: “Do not know if tomorrow will be the same.” Every paragraph talks about different aspects of their damaged lives

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