English in Amerika

 

-------English in Amerika-------

 

White nationalism 

is not 

to be taken lightly

 

But there is something laughable

in the hypocrisy 

of a settler shouting,

 

"go back to where you come from"

 

In the tongue

of another

country.

 

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Red Sky

 

-------Red Sky-------

 

The smoke 

has travelled 

a great distance

 

To remind us

 

We are 

truly

unseparatable

 

And so I ask

 

Of all 

those 

who can

 

To breathe

 

To fill yourself 

in every moment

with the Earth's sweetness

 

Respect-fully

 

For all 

of those 

who cannot.

 

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Know Peace

 

-------Know Peace-------

 

There will be 

no peace

until there is a reckoning

 

No balance

without first 

a power shift.

 

Mother Earth is showing us by fire, 

by sickness

and murder

 

The so-called normal

has not 

been working

 

And it is time

for things 

to change.

 

It is time, white men,

to be humble,

to be courageous

 

And to forgive

the power 

that we have taken

 

So that everyone

may 

know peace.

 

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Tending

 

-------Tending-------

 

As the structures who plunder 

bodies 

and land

begin to fall apart

 

Let us 

be planting seeds

and tending the gardens 

of our past 

generations

 

So that 

one day

someday 

very soon

 

Joy and abundance

may rise up

and fill us 

each

like Autumn ripened fruit.

 

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To Whom We All Return

 

-------To Whom We All Return-------

 

A true love can bridge 

the furthest 

of distances

 

Across rivers and lifetimes, 

through autumn 

and evergreen mountains.

 

True love 

is the land 

we each come from

 

And the Earth 

to whom 

we all return.

 

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