We were once blind to all outsiders, strangers and foreigners
And their teachings.
It was just us.
We thought we possessed a dominating power
That couldn’t be conquered, but then they came,
the others.
They came with their books, different looks
and foreign languages and taught us about the forbidden and the unknown .
They assimilated as we conformed, and then we all transformed
into an intellectual empire. We adopted our neighbors
who we once saw as relatively close aliens, And showed them
a different nation behind these walls, and they immigrated.
We erased the word “unfamiliar”
from our vocabulary, and embraced it.
We identified them as one of us as
different shades began to disrupt the pattern,
checkering the pages of our year books.
We were once blind, in a sense,
to where we could only see ourselves,
but over the years we have only grown
blind to color as we finally let
the outsiders in.
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