POEM TEN Day Ten

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My World

No one told me what I'd see

No one told me what I'd hear

Nor did they tell me

That my journey

          Would be perilous

          And dubious

 

I found my way into

          The world of the rez

I was born there

          I am born here

 

It is hard to break reality

          From the facts

It is hard to split what I know

          Into my own experience

 

I was happy

          I am happy

 

To be apart of this world

          This world that believes in me

 

To this family that comforts me

          That shelters me

                That saves me