<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">The Moment</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 22px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">The moment when, after many years</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">of hard work and a long voyage</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">you stand in the centre of your room,</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">house, half-acre, square mile, island, country,</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">knowing at last how you got there,</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">and say, I own this,</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 22px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">is the same moment when the trees unloose</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">their soft arms from around you,</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">the birds take back their language,</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">the cliffs fissure and collapse,</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">the air moves back from you like a wave</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">and you can't breathe.</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 22px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">No, they whisper. You own nothing.</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">You were a visitor, time after time</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">climbing the hill, planting the flag, proclaiming.</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">We never belonged to you.</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">You never found us.</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">It was always the other way round. </div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Verdana; min-height: 22px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Margaret Atwood</div></body></html>