THE ELEVENTH HOUR: Lighthouse family

Revised Malaysian History

We know,

We've learnt how history is created,

written, rewritten,

at times made to order,

the facts, the interpretation.

Once I thought and felt

being a Baba

was being Malayan, or Malaysian,

a state of mind,

the world itself

a piece of the landscape

harmonising the tongues and ways

of home, neighborhood and school,

mixing, mediating, more than

Chinese or Malay,

of both the flesh and blood,

I see now

as clearly as night follows day

the changing mood,

rundown melody,

loss of meaning.

-Ee Tiang Hong