Friday, May 26, 2017

Kit Kelen #512 - only a treaty OR how to have a home


512
only a treaty
or
how to have a home
(notes towards a villanelle)

only a treaty begins to redress

the silence we were
we have been till now

only a treaty begins to redress
the voicelessness
the lie

the fact of my having this address

the colours in the skin
and the colours on the map
surely that's a conversation
we have to begin?

darkness we've done to be us
and to them

only a treaty begins to redress

my dreaming and yours
and where do we meet?

every animal's in this

the past is the pile of us

acknowledge the wreck
file the collision report
then the party aggrieved
can begin to collect

wouldn't that be
what law's for?

only a treaty begins to redress
sins fathers and mothers
could never confess

if you want to live the country
you'll have to be every animal of it

only a treaty begins to redress
the damage of those who couldn't care less

listen up sisters and brothers
there's no one else to do the job
know – we are the energy for this!

the damage of shoes in a wilderness
the shame we've hidden from the world
from ourselves
the worlds we've hidden as well
the dreaming

only treaty can tell
the truth before pants
truth that is after

truth we make now
is judgement upon us

only a treaty begins to redress
the risk of going on
just as we've come

digging a deeper hole

there isn't a re-set button
but we need a new Year Dot

only a treaty begins to redress
the voicelessness
the lie

fact of my having an address

it's always been the time to speak
so the time is now

every clock strikes
at our failure

we have to be able
to begin to bless
our country
and
each
other

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