Sestina 8
Look at us
We are of earth and water
Look at them
It is the same
Look at us
We are suffering all these years
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They are connected
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We are in pain
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Surprised at our anger
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We are struggling to survive
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Expecting sorrow be benign
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We are the ones called pagan
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On their arrival
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We are called subversive
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Descending from name callers
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We wept sadly in the long dark
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Hiding in technologic light
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We buried the generations
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Inventing the body count
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We are older than America
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Chasing a fountain of youth
Look at us we are embracing earth
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Clutching today
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We are living in the generations
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Existing in jobs and debt
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We have escaped many times
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They cannot remember
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We are healing
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Their medicine is patented
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We are trying
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What are they doing
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We are children of earth
Look at them
Who are they
By John Trudell