The
old Malays I knew
Way
back in my village years
They
were the helpful lot
Sometimes
I could get free food
The
village of my life
The
children played together
We
didn't sing about race
We
knew we stayed in the village
What
have gone wrong now?
Amno
old could string the races together
Living
in those years sharing stories
After
May 13 the life of the nation shattered
The
race erosion walked in
With
fear and division cropped up
Dividing
the races through ineffective policies
In
the long run we saw the cracks of unity
Amno
baru leaders
They
thought about their own race
They
see others as threats to their survival
They
paint the bad canvass for their kind to see
They
forget we all Malaysians
Under
the sun under the moon
On
the ground we walk and die
We
share the same destiny
Village
of my time
Races
lived in harmony
The
children did mix around
We
didn't see anything wrong then