BY GLORIA OKOYE
Dear Phyllis Jack Webstad,
May your legacy live on
May corporations tainted orange
Never hide the true history
Of the history this country kept
Hiding from society for so long
Another year where we are to observe and to sit down with the truth
Truth and Reconciliation day
Bathes in a tub of being politically correct
With no intention of internal cleansing
Another year of money grabs
To fill workplaces with bright orange
For some it’s a day of rest in a bed of free cash
While water is contaminated
By the forced pipelines that were plunge
Against Mother Nature,
People are suffering
Please stand strong Wet’suwet’en!
Words, but no actions
Are like slaps across the faces
Of the people that didn’t deserve
The Evil for their kindness!
Future will reveal the retributions!
While cities run their now annual routines and meaningless speeches on
Concrete hypocrisy,
Grassroots get criminalized
And throw to cages
For taken on being defenders
As their ancestors
So where is the Solidarity?
Rallies uprising,
Camera and helicopters surrounding.
Cars honking out their impatience
And The Angry shout out
Intimidations!
Taken residential school survivors to courts
And runaways that just want to go back home
Celebrating days of genocide the week after
Claiming works of reconciliation,
These are the Orange T-shirt day woes.
