Shedding Feel that deepening connection Our paths crossed for a reason To share in this relational conversation Sinking deeper into our initial foundation A subterranean look into your ancestry That hallway extending deeper than you can see Lit with the spirit world torch light Sit in our unlimited whole foresight Feel it wrap around your ankles Submerge Hear the voice in the wind Wishing us to live The land speaking to me Land speaking to you Hear the voice in the wind Wishing us to live and live and live and live and live Breathe in deep the first fresh air After all the forest fires that have burned near Tectonics underground have shifted here Breathe in that first fresh air From echoes in this valley flowing Drum-song gusts blowing Into cedar and spruce thru Trauma that recently bloomed In the gardens of schools to The children secretly scooped Past the control of sacred dreams Charcoal burned by colonial regimes Past the five-century fever of pyrexia Into eyes of storms emerging from millennia Of contracts well-kept with the land Witnesses holding our honour to stand For the seventh seven seven generations in hand Past colonial lines marked in the sand Hear the voice in the trees The land speaking to me Land speaking to you Listen when she speak Hear the voice in the trees The land speaking to me Land speaking to you What I know is This is our growth Our turmoil To the holy filth For something greater More than a burden of guilt A duty to build And enjoy Crosses only crucify While the medicine wheel Unites four directions Learning on the ground Transform what is found With the mounds of her words that we are bound We scream this sound aloud aloud aloud We won’t ever abdicate Pledges made to recreate Bonding with celerity Dumping their austerity Forging solidarity Laughing out hysterically In the eyes of new storms Relationships form Eye contact Gazes warm Iris fully lit with the torch of purpose Honeyed hazel earthen golden green grey Sharp inhale with focus we find clean ways Winds sailing oceans rejuvenating place See the fields opening out from the forest The orange and yellow autumn leaves Shed his aggression & indifference For devotion & deliverance Hear the voice in the trees The land speaking to me Land speaking to you Listen when she speak Hear the voice in the wind Wishing us to live And live and live And live and live Hear the voice in the trees The land speaking to me Land speaking to you Listen when she speak Hear the voice in the wind Wishing us to live And live and live And live and live

Hearing the land and my ancestors, and the spirit in everything I can look back and see the spirit in everything Hearing the land and my ancestors, and the spirit in everything I can look back and see the spirit in everything

Family lineage whether Dene, Cree Or Hungarian history passed down in reverie Along with an ancient imperial rite of severing Of severing World wars entangled to my sequence Both lines coupled to my double helix Schoolyard forsaken into inter-generations Left me in my mind to be beaten by illusions Cuz I felt detached detached Illustrate a lack a lack Of connection to spirit Connect connect to spirit They forge us catholic To kill the goddess Pour sacrilege Medus-us object We praise their crucifix They enforce repentance Kneeled prostration With a lack of faith All that holy But where was the brave? From a young age Ripped away from play In the evening Catechism cruise Afternoon a 10-yr-old Delivering the news Bought myself candy with my money Through to 16 with the drug-pent loving Electronic music ecstasy Late nights mornings LSD Winter barren trees experimenting Trying for an escape strategy From the home with all the hallway yelling Got pennies for your dimes tell me who it is selling Cuz I felt detached detached Illustrate a lack a lack Of connection to spirit Connect connect to spirit Cuz I felt detached detached Illustrate a lack a lack Of connection to spirit Connect connect to spirit Seeing my culture Open displayed On the gym floor On Aboriginal day The dancer twirls My friends crusade Beat of drums prickle While this shame is engraved Given gifts of sacred spirit are missed Thrust upon with a medical list Genocide of white walls inside a psych ward I have seen it all they try to sever our cord Home life echoes A stolen scoop full Graveyards at school, trench warfare And falling shrapnel Over a lineage Thickened with pride Pierced open side Their christ’s omen tied Brother to psychosis Forced to take flight Splintered my family The woodchips alight Cuz I felt detached detached Illustrate a lack a lack Of connection to spirit Connect connect to spirit Cuz I felt detached detached Illustrate a lack a lack Of connection to spirit Connect connect to spirit We are not / detached detached There is not / a lack a lack Of connection to spirit Connect connect to spirit We are not / detached detached There is not / a lack a lack Of connection to spirit Connect connect to spirit Hearing the land and my ancestors, and the spirit in everything I can look back and see the spirit in everything

Sprouting from the rubble Can’t stop reaching for the sky yo Volcano under feet Erupting into my dreams Knowing I’m never done serving Sunshades of blessed autumn burning On the backs of my eyelids The shadow, important for me to witness I dwell in the dark In the dark I dwell I dwell in the dark Feel the river swell I dwell in the dark In the dark I dwell I dwell in the dark Light emerging now Orbit decayed from doubt Meteor crashing on down Splitting open the clouds Understand how this comes about Gravity grounding this start See into the crater that we have caught Cavity of debris parts Curtain pulled off the radius across I landed on this planet System labels me a savage So sticking to the plan then Spirit cradling this message I have been in filled up prisons Felt the energy stored within ‘em They tried so hard make it dead Bent the metal to the bed With all their systems of oppression Tied quelling my lessons these stresses & tensions Arrested aggressive the present surrendered Dulled pencil assessor I pull on the lever For the month I spent in the cell Felt empty wreckage turned inside out But sprouting from the rubble Can’t stop reaching for the sky yo Volcano under feet Erupting into my dreams The omen called me forth Rising blood grapefruit lunar force Magma flow into trees Pine seeds popping from the heat So no matter whose sword Finding love & strength thru inner source Knowing I’m never done serving Sunshades of blessed autumn burning On the backs of my eyelids The shadow, important for me to witness Looking up to see wings flying Spanning worlds tall as northern giants My prayers I sing defiant Thunderbird raise me to Orion Saturn returns at once Rings expand with each & every touch Please help me stabilize I scream loud in between my cries I no longer want to run Discard every single crutch Breathe in my lungs alive Now that I begin to recognize I dwelled in the dark In the dark I dwelled I dwelled in the dark Feel the river swell I dwelled in the dark In the dark I dwelled I dwelled in the dark And I’m emerging now

Crash-bang-boom outside The walls and windows alive It’s been several minutes since I hit a Glassy-glazed pipe Shooting me to space Away from corporate states Away from all the waste Erased to piles of gray It's like Vape-trick magic We are sacred, fasted Theirs is hatred, graphic They take it, mask it Sick of the rage So take it take it And take it away Just take it take it Now I’m stoned in the evening Without even toking Put it in my candy This new way of forgetting So I calm the itchy burn And the way I never learned To take the wheel and steer Before flattening the curve I am dead certain I would know courage If I left the circus On paved highway currents I just dream of mountains Nowhere in specific Stomach forces me to listen Erupting anxious seismic Have you ever felt Overwhelmed In the ribcage held To leave this place itself This terror is injected Our scalps, left reddened I feel hatred, dejected But I try to find the lessons The way that they invade Our lands, our bodies Betrayed then made afraid Our spirits, our bloodlines And then it’s 9-5 Or jail, or lives City needs to grind The marrow, the mind Draining me training me To be a lesser frequency With clogging arteries Disrupted sequencing So just carry me baby Into aurora scenes Beyond forgotten dreams Have you ever felt Overwhelmed In the ribcage held To leave this place itself Have you ever felt Overwhelmed In the ribcage held To leave this place itself Have you ever felt Overwhelmed In the ribcage held To leave this place itself Have you ever felt Overwhelmed In the ribcage held To leave this place itself