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Walk with me
I have been taught to leave a space for you
I was told that our moccasins will travel down the trail way together
And we will journey as one
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Before I understood this,
I had learned to keep you at a distance
If I wanted to hang on to my safety
Experience said
That you could.. and you would… and you did break me
Cutting me up with your tongue and your hands
Severing me like our peoples traditional lands
When they were split up by those who refused to understand
Do you realize it was not I that took from you
What you needed to be a man?
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In this new place,
We no longer knew the geography
Of each other’s spirits
Could not walk gently
And love softly
Without crashing into each other like thunderclaps
Did not know how to navigate the new terrain
So I said I did not need you
Would not need you…. Ever again
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But I see now
over the passage of trials and time
I need you to walk with me
Journey with me by my side
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Don’t you see nechimos
The colonial objective has won
When we fail to find a home in each other
We are of the same making
Laterally violent lightening
Struck us both in the same place
More than once
In different ways
It’s current has passed through generations
Your anger and frustrations
Are not uniquely yours
They were given to you
Handed down from the forefathers of colonization
Designed to interrupt your necessary role
In rebuilding the nations
But don’t come unglued
Don’t falter, don’t step back, don’t second guess
Don’t harm, don’t hurt, don’t forget
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that
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every lodge needs it’s warrior
every family it’s protector
every child it’s father
When we heal… we bring that medicine back to our people
And now is our time
So take my hand
And journey with me by my side
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Walk with me
I have left a s p a c e for you
Reclaim the Warrior 