Green Again

-------Green Again-------

Centuries of apology

cannot
relieve
the theft,

That imperial hands
still commit
upon bodies and

the land.

Trust and treaties are broken,

uprooted,

and the dark,

beautiful ground left bare.

This conquest
needs us
to
forget.

But truth is planted like seeds
within our chest,
and the full moon
pulls at us,

Encouraging our wings to open,
to rise
and cover the earth
with green again.

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