turtle island holocaust

we have walked wet stones/a river of bones

we have lived on rock/ice desert swamp talk awaiting your justice/to return land to us and been kicked into/stinking gutters you call your court of law/for offences we saw could never compare/no how and nowhere to atrocities/numbering infinities oppressors commit/cover beauty with shit and degradation/"civilize-ation" ! is what you call it/this harm you inflict

we have been herded/our humanity stripped and converted/for your insanity into old freight trains/under seals of kings to northern barrens/where our hearts can't sing like flags our bodies/staking imperial claims to land you seize/needs immaterial dumped frozen dying/on snowbanks and ice covered only by/thin blankets of vice diseased your honour/and our will to live and our will to live

we have been stripped bare/under your altars where we learned despair/for falling bright stars innocence defiled/medicines confiscated the heart of a child/faith desecrated heads shaved childhood hit/language banned and tied your place of worship/where holey priests sighed beating their crack'd whip/between children's thighs but we got away/to watch the sun rise another new day/sacred hills survive sacred hills survive

we have had children/stolen from our arms before we could begin/to teach 'do no harm' family ties severed/we struggled and fought while you endeavoured/that we would be taught to love your jesus/to love your white skin righteousness frees us/your hateful mission of generations/ supremacist position accept subjugation/speak this foreign tongue do laundry clean house/the plan had begun so insidious/hideous

assimilation: love mission mission- ary position missionary position fuck that mission missionary position

we have lived under/the deathly shadow of pillage and plunder/vice incognito with military/firepower you rule harshly unfairly/destruction your tool army invasion/while on our burial land your words of evasion/show truth of our stand you try to cover up/with razor wire fence but proud we rise up/oppressive nonsense won't separate us/our history we know we face you and throw/eggs at your death tanks bombs at your world banks

we have suffered your rocks bullets screwdrivers sticks and stones bullets rocks and screwdrivers sticks and stones bullets rocks and screwdrivers rocks and screwdrivers

we have sung our songs/to young boys with thin necks stretched hard and long/where did it begin not on leafless trees/or in foster homes places children die/their half dressed bodies frozen on roadsides/while ancestors cry young mouths wrapped/around gun barrels young girls arms sapped like/pin cushions convulse abandoned buildings/slicing memory pulse with razor blades/or eating bottles of pills and never/waking ever

we have found babies/with brains splattered red hearts stopped dead bodies/burnt with sniff and huff is it ever enough/and no ceremony no song ceremony

we have endured all/all of this and more

so spare us your guilt/had it to the hilt your useless pity/your rotten city decline of empire/your twisted desire pink-cheeked impotent/show of shamed intent drown it in the shit/mercury poisoned water you set adrift/take it still suckling from your arid breast/and throw it indiscreet on a slab of concrete/slice its tongue in two cut its hair with dull/scissors and then with your european/precision peel the skin from its shivering/body and make a lampshade to shield us from your thoughts