WE ARE EVERYTHING

a poem, song, or a war cry.

You can flatten our bodies,

But you cannot beat our hearts into compliance,

You can steal our homes,

But you will never steal our smiles.

You can burn our books and libraries,

But you cannot erase our mother-tongue from our memory.

Our songs will live on long after we are gone.

You can destroy everything we have ever built,

We will find our new purpose in that,

You can fill our rivers with blood,

And we will paint our future in red.

You can take our lives away from us,

But you cannot take life from our spirit,

We are bigger than your fear,

We are everything.

Our soil is too fertile,

She will always remember,

Long after your destruction has passed,

Our roots will grow again.

We are everything.

We are everything.

We are everything.