Breathe Life

Walkways are silence
An eerie feeling looms
I look around and see death
Death?
No worse
Life without death

You can almost hear the screams of the artifacts
Screams to mother earth
From which they were born
From which they belong

People say they are just items
But protocol
Aboriginal protocol says different
We breathe life into everything we make
Breathe life
Life
Totem poles
Masks
Regalia
Each possessing power
Each possessing life
Each possessed

Possession
Museums
Life
Museums preserve life
Museums prevent death
Museums break the cycle of life
Break the cycle of death

Life
Circular to
Death

Now
Life
Circular to
Possession

Each step
Eyes widen
Heart slows
Thump thump    Thump thump… …thump… … …thump
As if my body
Is caught between
Life Death
Untouched
Sprayed with chemicals
Moved
Here
There
Or not moved
Just  always there

Just lifeless
Lifeless
Deathless
Stuck
Stolen
Kidnapped
Forgotten
Forgetting

Land
Mother
Art
Land
Mother

Land
Mother
Art
Land
Mother

Cycle
A broken cycle
A devastating cycle
A deathless cycle
A cycle of constant
Even though the only constant should be
Change…

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