The voices of Indigenous People
echo around the Globe
with all the stories unburied
and needing to be told-
the ignorance of Racism
empowered by ‘Church and State’-
the tearing apart of Families
enforced by greed and hate-
loss of life, lands, identities,
even loss of self-respect
acting out sad tragedies,
Racism the cause and effect.
Now’s the Time for Truths,
for seeing clear and true
in the Light- not in the Shadows
directing much that Humans do
to feed on suffering and pain
repeated throughout History
over and over again.
Now’s the Time for True Unity,
for remembering, not repeating
Racist behaviours of the past,
Time for Reconciling Now
and Respect for Life to shine
across the Globe at last.
October 2,2022- Shelley Audrey Wilson- Victoria, BC
Flowerpoet 
Although they are as precious as every other human being, some people can actually be [consciously or subconsciously] perceived thus treated by an otherwise free, democratic and relatively civilized society as though they’re somehow disposable and, by extension, their suffering is in some way cheapened and less worthy of general societal concern.
Many indigenous people have learned this the hardest way.
While obviously no person should ever be considered disposable, one can observe this with indigenous-nation people living with substance abuse/addiction related to lasting, formidable residential or boarding school trauma. In Canada’s atrocious case at least, this includes the many indigenous children buried in unmarked and even officially unrecorded grave sites.
The whole ordeal was a serious attempt at annihilating native culture.
For me, a somewhat similar inhuman(e) devaluation is observable in external attitudes, albeit perhaps on a subconscious level, toward the daily civilian lives lost in protractedly devastating war zones and famine-stricken nations. The worth of such life is measured by its overabundance and/or the protracted conditions under which it suffers; and those people can eventually receive meagre column inches on the back page of the First World’s daily news.
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Sadly true.
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