"As kids we pledged allegiance..."

As kids, we pledged allegiance -

You were my motherland.

I was a little pigeon

That ate right from your hand.

We’re nurtured on one soil,

We gulped the selfsame air,

How is it we uncoiled

So far, beyond repair?

We used to reach consensus

Without spoken words

And now, the same five senses

Perceive two different worlds.