08: Indigenous Creators - Aug 2021

Time/Fight or Flight

I’ve been crippled by the passing dates
Why do we ever pick this fight?
My inevitable demise awaits
It’s our one true birthright

But a quarrel would not suffice
My decipher is to remain humble
An eye for an eye is a fool’s paradise
A watch to watch my world crumble

And I’m sure I’ve been here before
Addressing the stars of the past
Hoping my memories would soar
It’s been difficult to make them last

There’s a sugar coated childhood
In the brinks of natural laughter
I may have misunderstood
Or did I miss that lesson or chapter?

No one tells you what it can do
To all the precious memories
They’re everything that shaped you
Now caught in thoughtless reveries

But the mind is cunning, a prisoner’s key
The senses which bring nostalgia’s hack
At last a pardon has succumbed to be
My memories fade but will always be back

-Jeremy Sylvester

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