Ratified - Jucifer

fled sovereign rule

for foreign shores

trailed over seas

by kingdom wars

blindside

your succor

from tribes

here before

infect our blankets

'civilize'

clothe us in

homicide

treaties signed

show veneers of white

hubris lines

every page with blight

sufferers lands

bought on full displacement

parsed as kind

strange view of independence

our people wrecked

as you contrived

signed with x

ratified

genocide

ratified genocide

ratified genocide

our lands reduced

to white men’s smallest mercy

our hands induced

to relinquish in english marks

signed with x

signed with x

signed with x

ratified