Half my life place

Last place
Half my life place
Score first place?
So racist
It made the news
Again

Used to own us
Used to steal us
Used to kill us
They never forgot
The thrill of control
Over brown bodies

Mentored
By men
Succored on stories
Of magnificent conquest
Rescuing “SAVAGES”
To fit in boxes of economy

Still haten
The messy reality
History
Culture
Family

We know our ghosts
Absorb their stories
Watch through borrowed eyes

Last place
Half my life place
Secret Circle
Sisters and brothers
Leaders and Seers

One
Short
Sentence
“some progress”

That is you dear friend
A seed of hope
In lost places.

NanaBjörn Aug 2023