Planting the Flag

 

I have no flag but yours to claim

Our fathers and lovers fallen

We weep and bury our sons

Yet you hand us this flag

 

Brother, what do you know of us

We are different, not like you

 

I see no flag that speaks of love

And earth and peace

Molasses skinned women

Have no flag to keep them safe

 

Stolen daughters, murdered children

Where is their flag

 

With your flag you claim the moon

The mountains, the oceans

The plains, the forest

Winter, a flower, a breeze has no flag

 

There is no flag to help me read

To sow the seeds and dream the songs

 

I am weary of your flag that

Tells our sisters what to wear, when to marry

It is a ruse, a con, more crazed pride

Defending glory with eternal battles

 

Your flag does not remember us

But bullies and boasts its’ warning