"Our Home And Native Land (But Not Really)"

Red dresses

Orange shirts

Yellow bellied churches with press releases mumbling

"Mea culpa, mea culpa,

but don't look too closely, don't look behind the curtain sorrysorrysorry whoops!"

And still so many sneer "Injins" and bitch about "government handouts"

immune to the truth of babies taken

and their lives taken from them

immune to the reality of murdered and missing Indigenous women

overlooked and

ignored.

And here I stand

seeing some

(not all)

driving down highways of red dresses

wearing orange shirts for lost children

and wondering how why what of the past we will own

and how

we heal from

so much

too much

loss.