nanu

It's so beautiful to see you
walking around discovering nooks.and crannies
 in a home you have called your own for years.
To see you find a snug little corner
in the wide never ending expanse of this pigeonhole,
a square foot is a square foot is an acre,
when one looks through your eyes.

As you scratch and scratch at this unyielding surface,
you never give up
you never learnt to.
you don't learn like i do,
from the others around me.
You don't imitate,
you know what you know
and you have known for centuries.

You learn to develop habits
suited to my tastes
 but you don't learn knowledge
that was passed on to you.
As you sit all snuggled up,
in a corner you dug out of concrete
I admire your apparent inability to learn.

Learning is not always intelligent.
Learning is not always knowledge.
I learnt to be a woman.
I learnt to be middle class.
I learnt my majoritarian values.
 you know to be you,
 no matter what you learn
 you know to be you
 no matter how much we teach you
 to be nanu