Every Sunday, for the duration of the traveling community art exhibition Reconciliation: What does it mean to you? – from August 13 to December 2, 2017 – to honour the complexity of the task, I will publish a post about my process of decolonization.
may the Earth and the Sky hold my heart
September 23, 2017 12:00 pm – It has been 36 hours that we are without news of my brother; a brother who is suffering from mental illness
each time I am facing
the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth
about colonialism
I am aching, painfully aching
as I feel dismantled by the lies
the denial, the fake news
the pollution, the genocide
the missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls
as my heart loses her breath
and my feet their sturdy ground
please Earth hold me for a moment
at least until I find a where
a how, a with whom
to process all this shit
let me become part of the resilience
of the birches, the firs, the maples
so I can see through the dark ready to pour clouds
some patches of bright healing blue wavelengths
and as I walk beside the dead
the violent dead of the too many
those close to me
and those close to the land
as I reclaim my true place among the living
a decolonized one from a patriarchal capitalist system
a system, we can observe, has no desire to care
and take care
please Sky lift me for a moment
at least until I recover the stamina
to grieve and love
be angry and love
resist and love
create and love
until I become nothing less
than fierce love
Typo or mistake, let me know, I will be very grateful
mari.e cornellier 