It Matters

 Johnston...

is a pretty common name;
the colonizing 

people had that name.

Yeah, the colonizers,

breakers of Treaties...

Our message is to them.

I is a settler,

a little player

among big people,

but I'm taking the wheel

of the conversation -

nobody should be silent.

I is a settler;

it is me who must

reconcile, for those are

our actions that created this

Canada. Any minute now

I'll call for a revolution.

      K.J.W.

      October 2020