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9. AFRICA’S PLEA
by Roland Tombekai Dempster
Ms. Rona C. Catubig

10. I am not you –
but you will not
give me a chance,
will not let me be me.
Ms. Rona C. Catubig

11. If I were you –
but you know
I am not you,
Yet you will not
let me be me.
Ms. Rona C. Catubig

12. You meddle,
interfere
in my affairs
as if they were
yours
and you were
me.
Ms. Rona C. Catubig

13. You are unfair,
unwise
foolish to think
that I can be you,
talk, act
and think like you.
Ms. Rona C. Catubig

14. God made me me.
He made you you.
For God’s sake
Let me be me.
Ms. Rona C. Catubig