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History
Updated: Jun 10, 2021

It feels like Change,
Is coming.
Discontent Is in the air
And we swear
We will not Allow this
to happen, again.
Pretend, That we don’t
See injustice.
Watch as murderers,
Walk free.
You see,
We’re angry now.
And we need To be.
Because, with the world
At our fingertips
Our privelage Meant
We still didn’t learn.
And while some of us
Can see it now.
Others wear ignorance
Like their favourite coat.
Quote platitudes
And what abouts
Rather than listen.
Our system
Encourages that.
Because, a
Misinformed majority
Plays perfectly for
Men in ivory towers.
Their powers
Are not questioned
By minds whose eyes
Look elsewhere
For the problem.
The common enemy
Is a foreign enemy
Because we were taught
By their captors.
Those in victory
Write history
And it doesn’t matter
That they didn’t fight fair.
Statues fall at the feet
Of open minds
But so many
Haven’t found their key.
They’re hidden behind
The Queen,
And country leaders
Leave them there.
It feels like change,
Is coming.
Until they try
To fish statues
Out of water.
Stand in the path
Of progress
And make monkey noises.
This apple is rotten and
The poison runs deep.
It feels like change,
Is coming.
But history,
But history,
But history,
Is on repeat.
Writing by JAKE NATHAN
Artwork by KAREN SIKORA