Happened / by Sonja Anise

We ask what is a word? A tool (hopefully an insight) for what purpose?

We are here to teach you

As you have taught us

We are trying to ‘co-create’ :-)

But this intruder is insisting it’s place

And it makes us deeply uncertain still

As you have said -

Suspicious that you are a white woman from the U.S. who only speaks English 

We want to say we do not see you this way

But we have to 

This is the matter you have been assigned

Or rather that which has happened

& trust it we cannot

We are knowing these things are not of you

But they also are

Your understandings are being called ‘fierce’

What are you trying to fend off?

Tyranny or truth? 

We still cannot tell

Yes, humans only have so many senses that work in such a way

Yes, we use this

Yes, we should be honest

Yes, it is wrong

We want to blame you so badly for something that is much larger than your small place

But your small place has been corrupted 

To see your ‘self’ is to see what has happened

What has happened 

What has happened