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Death to Nature's Family
Death to Nature's Family
“What kind
Of Coke
Would you like?”
She asks
With a plastic smile.
Like some
Cheap commercial
I half-wish were my life.
Cheesy smile,
Corny jokes.
Too much makeup,
compliments
That insult
My intelligence.
Coca-Cola,
Sprite.
Diet Coke.
When all I want
Is a tall glass
Of ice water.
Cool, refreshing
Water.
Something we take
For granted.
While our
Indigenous siblings
Fight for it
& die.
Water.
A necessity
Denied to the Ones
Whose land
We stole.
Stole their way of life.
Their language.
Their spirituality.
Their dignity.
Their hope.
Adults, children,
Disappeared
Into the day & night.
Infinite murders
Hidden
By the media.
Deaths
Covered up
So casually
By the Greedy Ones.
Genocide
To those
Closest to our Earth.
Nature's family
Dying of thirst
& starvation.
Copyright 2021
By Insomnia
(AJ Kline Robinson)
Written Saturday, December 11, 2021
1:33 a.m.
“What kind
Of Coke
Would you like?”
She asks
With a plastic smile.
Like some
Cheap commercial
I half-wish were my life.
Cheesy smile,
Corny jokes.
Too much makeup,
compliments
That insult
My intelligence.
Coca-Cola,
Sprite.
Diet Coke.
When all I want
Is a tall glass
Of ice water.
Cool, refreshing
Water.
Something we take
For granted.
While our
Indigenous siblings
Fight for it
& die.
Water.
A necessity
Denied to the Ones
Whose land
We stole.
Stole their way of life.
Their language.
Their spirituality.
Their dignity.
Their hope.
Adults, children,
Disappeared
Into the day & night.
Infinite murders
Hidden
By the media.
Deaths
Covered up
So casually
By the Greedy Ones.
Genocide
To those
Closest to our Earth.
Nature's family
Dying of thirst
& starvation.
Copyright 2021
By Insomnia
(AJ Kline Robinson)
Written Saturday, December 11, 2021
1:33 a.m.