Uncurl

Fingers bent in clenching fists,
We know no other than what we’re given.
Accepting of culture so natural, factual,
Actual, practical – it only makes sense.
And my how we’re quick to offer defense.

But who is to say one people is right,
And others must reform their ‘plight’?
For when culture is broken down,
The term itself means nothing more than the next.
It’s only invention, a convenient convention
Shaped and structured by each who use it.

But understanding revision is never so easy,
Tradition is not so simply dismissed.
Sometimes it’s as painful as unfurling the
Fingers long curled in tight and tensing fists.