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Under your shadow we grew up listening -
Tales of freedom, justice and compassion,
Fighting for our rights and never to give up.
Your determination infected us all.
Though variedly, we carried the same passion.
You took a forsaken name to unify us.
We dress ourselves in that name following your lead.
You taught us to put our trust to high heaven.
You walk us through history and what might be.
You gave us hope of something better to come.
But what have you become our Maas?
Where have all the sacrifices gone?
What have become of your lead?
Why are we like this, worse than before?
How did it all end this way?
Is this the end of our collective journey?
We blame you not for what we have become
For your mirror who and what we are.
You think and talk our angst and frustration,
You feel and touch our tenderness.
You sense and project who we are.
For what we have become
For where we have gone
For how we have done it and currently doing
For why we think, feel and do they way we are
For all of these, we reflect on you.
So what now oh Maas of our time?
How shall we continue our struggle
Or descend into oblivion?
Be content with what have we become?
Or like your hope, we do, not too late.
