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The Inuit in me Speaks to the White - SPOKEN

from CANADADA: TAKE TWO by M.L.Holton - Canadian Poet

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When we reach to understand others, we soon integrate their thoughts and feelings into our own. A mono-dialogue can reveal a cold hard Truth.

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The Inuit in me Speaks to the White

Why do you always insist that I become like you?
I’m not interested.

You lie, you cheat, you deceive yourself,
you poison yourself, you don’t know how to live -
or love your neighbour.

You tell me you will teach me to read and write –
Why do I need these things?
I know how to talk, I know how to be still.

You tell me you know this God, this spirit
who watches over all and calls us brothers –
What are you driving at?

Why do you think I should suspend my natural suspicion of you
just because you carry written words of this god’s Great Love?
What is wrong with your love?

I am kind, I am generous,
I also listen to you.
Because I do, you think I am stupid.

I am not. You are.

You think you can destroy me
as you force-feed me your words.
I know I am a prisoner of your curiosity.

You try your tricks on me, I am an experiment to you.
You use me, beat me with the strange rhythm of your tongues.
You think I will sing your songs one day.

I will not.

I dream with my own people.I drum with my own people.
I cannot command you to go away, it is not our way.
I know you will leave soon enough -

It is you who are the homeless.

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from CANADADA: TAKE TWO, released March 15, 2017
M.L.Holton - The Inuit in me Speaks to the White

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MLHolton Ontario

Self-taught, award-winning, senior artist, author & filmmaker from the Golden Horseshoe Region of Southern Ontario, Canadada.... In sum, a devoted advocate of 'Serious Fun'.

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