This 1983 poem by blind Paiwan poet Monaneng expresses the pain indigenous peoples from Taiwan and abroad have experienced as a result of their difficult circumstances: they've been pushed off their lands and left without opportunities; their languages are dying; their cultural identities are fragmenting; their labor is being marginalized ....
排灣族盲詩人莫那能寫於 1983 年的詩句，痛訴著當時台灣、乃至於世界各國原住民的共同處境：生存空間遭到擠壓、語言流失、文化認同斷裂、勞動邊緣化… …。相較於一般國民，原住民失業率更高，高等教育比例及壽命卻遠低於漢人。