Nation

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

building monuments
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