We Are One

Poet: Ken Jordan
Poem:  We Are One
Edited by: Sparkle Jordan
written: June/2014

        
   One day in Cape Town, South 
Africa,  an old man spotted 
twenty small children, all boys, 
ages 8 to 12, playing in a field -
    
    The old man noticed that the 
boys had no water, or food.  He 
had a basket of fruit, and took 
it out to the field where the 
boys were playing a game.  He 
yelled, "The first one of you to 
reach this sweet fruit basket, 
can have all the fruit!"
  
    At that instance, one of the 
boys said, "whichever one of us 
reaches the basket first, will 
share with all of us."

    And in the Xhosa language, 
they all said: "UBUNTU!" I am 
because we are.

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