08: Indigenous Creators - Aug 2021

Tell Them

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 for days they tell you
‘it’s not all priests’
    
tell them
‘it’s not all men either’
but that doesnt stop the fear from crawling up my sisters’ throats’

tell them  
‘they look for other women 
when they walk into a room
like liferafts 
just hoping they’ll take them to shore’ 


                                                                               tell them.
‘everytime we get into a boat 
we are expecting it to sink’
                                                                               tell them. 
‘we stopped chasing our dreams a long time ago
because all were left with were nightmares’
                                                                                tell them.
‘we gasp for air in the middle of the night
not knowing it we’ll catch it again’
                                                                                tell them. 
‘not all planes crash either
but that doesn't take away the fear’
                                                                                tell them.

                tell them 
tell them you’re speaking
                          tell them
                                                                 you’re here.




-Connor "Nimkiins" Lafortune
                                                                                                                      say
‘tell that to my muslim friends
who‘s life insurance policies rise anytime we mention a tower’
say
‘or my black friends
getting pulled over by the cops’
say
‘it's not all’ only applies
when the politicians have to face the mirror
  
tell them.
‘even those who are afraid of dogs
are allowed to walk by parks 
without fearing for their lives’


those women aren’t liferafts

but they’re the closest thing we’ve got









tell them



















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