We Were Never Savages

Published August 6, 2017

We were never savages. Hard necessary statement to make. Hard necessary statement to write. Hard necessary poem to write; when you live in a world with people so far removed from humanity or do not see you as a human being. To live in a world where your image is distorted, your skin is a threat, the culture is stolen and re-fitted back to you how they want to represent it, genocide for centuries for a colonial mindset bent on destruction (weekly, monthly, yearly agenda of propaganda). That mindset which is systematically and individually so broken with superiority over humanity; that they will always fail because at the core of it all, what we have is our humanity that connects, makes us smile, share our life and our stories, perform, dance, design, write, create, etc. Its all quite redundant having to persistently hold up a mirror for them to look and see themselves, their actions and destruction, but yet it is necessary to do so. We are all free. Free to be. Free to live. Their insecurities for superiority is quite sad and that’s the problem. That is the problem. Enough with the stigmas, the distortions, the lies, the confinement, the prejudice, the racism, the oppression. Enough with it all. I am not a problem. I am not your problem.