WHITEWASH

Whitewash

Make yourself feel great and

Whitewash

My existence while denying my experience so you

Whitewashed

Your fragility. Your privilege you

Whitewash

Over me, with your apology you

Whitewashed

For your ego comforts. But my own discomfort is so

Whitewashed

By your friends & allies subtly speaking

Whitewash

As my words and all my feelings are just

Whitewashed

For your palate, forked and falsehood speaking

Whitewash.

Mind my soul my body

Whitewashed

Brilliance beauty, culture

Whitewashed

In your blackface and appropriated

Whitewash.

Broken Treaties of Land’s peoples

Whitewashed

Crying patience, Massah’s here and

Whitewashed

Reservations Residential Schools that Whitewash

Faith’s Abuse, the Scoop and plundered

Whitewashed

Murdered Missing females and the

Whitewash

Reconciliated

Whitewashed

Silent blindness

Whitewashed

Land you must Acknowledge yet you

Whitewash

Every Nickname Club and Team with painted

Whitewash.

Brutalizing steeped in

Whitewashed

Murder Lynchings and cross burnings, try and

Whitewash

Protest voices and my people as you

Whitewash

me for being not so

Whitewashed.

My dying and dead body that’s been

Whitewashed

By your constitutions’

Whitewash.

Cleanse, divide, dispose and

Whitewash

Knees on necks of Black Lives

Whitewashed

Black Lives Matter

Whitewashed

Hidden genocidal

Whitewash.

Raced systemic hate that’s

Whitewashed

Eradication for your

Whitewash

Blacks and all First Peoples,

Whitewashed

White supreme I see your power hooded

Whitewashed

Spoils and land you stole with

Whitewashed

Blue eyed Faith. The

Whitewashed

Ancestors shipped to sell your

Whitewashed

Greed divined as Word is Bullshit

Whitewash

but I’ll rise again ‘gainst

Whitewashed

Tasered Cuffs pipes fists & bullets

Whitewashed.

MAMA I CAN’T BREATHE IN ALL THIS

WHITEWASH

‘CAUSE YOU’VE

WHITEWASHED

ME

TO

DEATH!!!!

Today the earth spoke and I listened

Today the earth spoke and i listened
The waters called my name
With familiarity
And tender memory
Where have you been asked the sea
You used to come and visit me
And cleanse your soul your skin and mine
And rid us of the sin and grime
The shadows linger just out of view
Outlining city scape old and new
Was it better then
No not ever
Just sweet remaining imagined embers
And I breathe deep; take the whole world in
And exhale release to new beginning
I have work to do
I can not hide
Radical self nourishment to stem the tide
Stand still and hope
Move close and pray
Reveal the path I take today
I have the strength
In fear no more
Throw guilty shame  on desolate floor
I hear the world cry out to me
Eyes wide shut the truth I see
Manifesting manifesto intention named
Like pictures captured poses same
It calls to me and i to you
Shall i lead wait or follow
No time to choose
I heard the sea caress my name
While moon and sun do rise and set …and rise and set

As time itself stood still and wept

And waited. …

 

 

Gnarled

Gnarled boughs
Weathered rivulets of time
Statuesque
Carved out of nothingness
Clinging desperately in nature’s unending pose
Refined by season’s storm
Sightless mummy, awake in its tomb
Presevation its life
Survival its death
It remains
Gnarled

Mother Earth, Mother Earth

Mother Earth, Mother Earth

Daughter of my heart and birth 

Clothed in love and fragrance deep

Protectress of Creation weeps

You tear Her blanket mindlessly
Destroying life relentlessly

But still She loves so earnestly
And waits for you so patiently

Buffalo, Wolf and Owl I see

In my dreams they come to me

Sacred, wisdom, deity
Watching our eternity
Unwavering for You I wish

For time to save Earth’s Mother’s kiss