re: new poem !!!!

Dealing with a new life:

Being sober is a much

Needed change

In many ways it

Is like a getting a new car

I traded in my rez rocket

For new dreams

New goals

My life is like a new car

A new war pony

For the journey ahead

I am still walking

Around

Kicking the tires

Wondering what to get

Out of this life

Shaking this hopeless

Feeling off

Hasn't been easy

The loss of my kids

The loss of my relationship

Because

I didn't know how to be in one

All residential school

Hangovers

That I had to stop

From infecting

My kids

Rusted over

Creativity has broken

Loose

And is free now

I reclaim my languages

Secwepemc and Nlaka pamux

I pore over books

Of history

Learning about how our

World changed in 1810

When the first fur trading post

-->

Went up in Secwepemc territory

the greedy bastards

have never stopped wanting.