War has become background noise
the ambient soundtrack of the times
illegal consciousness
the
weaponization of religion
“the soft bigotry of low expectations”
life in the ether Between
where we die and are eaten by images
a gulag of the poor the black the brown
no rich are invited
to starve in metal cages, containers of
misery
will always be seen as oppression
as times change
monuments are for the "winners"
assuming "losers"
a world view Triumphant
another subdued
dynasties lost
and Peoples enslaved
the Other in chains
of poverty rapine and destruction
for generations entrapped
in the dominant story
a Just society would need no monuments
its glory reflected in the faces
of a People Unbound
not rendered in Stone but in Flesh
and in Spirit
One
wakinyan, voices of Thunder
the song of the Storm
jagged Light opens us
treat every poisoned word
as a promise
Resistance is in the blood
