To gabby
The sky here
Goes on
Forever
And you can see
Earth
For
Miles
Reminders
Again
And again
Of how
Big it is
And how
Small
we are
And the mountains
In the horizon
360 degrees
Are bigger
Then
The people
In the magazines
Bigger then
Bank roles
More sacred
Then
Church clothes
Older then
The US Jihad
And Jesus
And she tells me
History is
BORING
I tell her
It’s only boring
Because
They’re not
Telling HER story
Becuase she
Can’t relate
To numbers
And dates
But if we
Could explain
To children today
That this land
Wasn’t given
It was taken away
When your
Grandfather was born
This wasn’t the states
That your ancestors lived
Where you see a Super 8
And that wal mart
Was a plaza
And that plaza
Was a temple
They want to make our
Colonization seem very simple
In 1492
And 1520
And 1848
It was all for money
And damn
Didn’t it
Suck back then
And oh it was
Hard for Europeans
But it wasn’t just
Dates
It was HUNDREDS of years
And it wasn’t just $
It was lives, blood, and tears
And it didn’t just suck
Back then
Look at this place now
Where to we begin
And it wasn’t just hard on them
They killed of whole tribes
Human extinction
Hermana
This history is not boring
It’s yours
Keep asking questions
Keep opening doors
