To the futures we can't even dream

Will the time come
When I can just trust
Process
Flow
Creation
Use the paint
The little on decried
- Yes – the future needs just that tone
Turquoise/jewel/sky
Each stroke
A winding thread
To those we help become
To those who make/take up
Warriorifying
Our artists
Knowers
Makers
And whisperers of divine.
Gonna wait for savior?
Trust hard
Cause they made the cost high
Us
We lived on road sides
Unhuman
Outside
Aint got much
That they can see the value of
-mamisiwin-
I/we gotta learn the old words
Listen to our blood
Use what today gives us
Be ok
That there are futures
We can’t even dream
But we can quip
With paints and brushes and hope.

Pehiw – Wandering 2022