Chapter 65 - Sestina 8

Look at us

We are of earth and water

Look at them

It is the same

Look at us

We are suffering all these years

Look at them

They are connected

Look at us

We are in pain

Look at them

Surprised at our anger

Look at us

We are struggling to survive

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Expecting sorrow be benign

Look at us

We are the ones called pagan

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On their arrival

Look at us

We are called subversive

Look at them

Descending from name callers

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We wept sadly in the long dark

Look at them

Hiding in technologic light

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We buried the generations

Look at them

Inventing the body count

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We are older than America

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Chasing a fountain of youth

Look at us we are embracing earth

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Clutching today

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We are living in the generations

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Existing in jobs and debt

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We have escaped many times

Look at them

They cannot remember

Look at us

We are healing

Look at them

Their medicine is patented

Look at us

We are trying

Look at them

What are they doing

Look at us

We are children of earth

Look at them

Who are they

By John Trudell