An Open Conversation - freedom hard won

If you ask me

What shapes me?

I will tell you

Who I am

Is shaped by

The light in your eyes

Our communion

Truest as voices free

If I ask myself

What shaped me?

I will tell the world

I am me

As shaped by self-worth

Built on being a human being

Kindness nurtures freedoms liberating

If we are conversing

Our images shaped by more than words

We can tell the world

It is not just

Black and white, Man or woman

Able bodied or disabled, young and old

Ubuntu* reigns fundamentally

By Simone Beatrice Naik Hagfeldt, 2013-12-06; Ubuntu in isiXhosa, being human through our interaction with other people.