The city is burning brother And all the buildings in it And all the souls in it too
The forest is burning sister And all the trees in it And all the souls in it too
The heart is freezing From the stain Of what we’ve made. The heart is cracking Lost pieces float in emptied space
The filthy man on the street is your brother The looting soldier is your baby sister The man who bulldozed the trees is your mother The starving child is your son The one who turned away is you
This grief runs oceans deep For what we have done To ourselves. The cruelty and the shame Slices, sears the heart. This stain darks the sky. We look away And rip our hearts out Each and every day
We tumble in the coma of our grief Absence echoes through the aching Chambers of the heart “I” we say “You” we say We cannot —do not say “We”
We are lying in the alleyway bleeding out We lose our family in a bomb attack We are drowning refugees We are burned out of our hostel We are swimming in a poisoned lake We are trafficked girls and we are soldiers We are colonialists and slaves We are captains of industry We are tech billionaires We are lying stealing We are sleeping
We the people Are the people We
Time now. We are waking up Singing ourselves home Feeling screeching grief And the solid pulse of every living thing We are grieving We are crying crawling standing With our brothers, sisters, planet With ourselves
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