Tag: Reconciliation

Against Advice

~ Vanessa ~ Leave a comment

I want to break down
These walls we’ve erected,
That I laid the first brick of,
I want to call and apologize
And tell you how I really feel,
Still;
Leave nothing unsaid.

But I don’t and I won’t;

Still,
Something reminds me,
I’m obstinate;
And I often do what I feel,
Against best advice

Reparations

~ Vanessa ~ Leave a comment

We don’t belong here,
Most of us,
All of us,
We are squatters,
Claimants to possessions,
To lives, to land,
To stories that are not ours,
That are not meant to be owned,
And still we are a legacy,
Of conquerors,
Thefting still,
Without acknowledgement,
Often without knowledge,
Of the very sins we are committing,
This is our history,
Our story,
The ending is never written,
It is living by our means
And I wish to live love
And reparations into this Act.