Obligations 2
As we
embrace resist
the future the present the past
we work we struggle we begin we fail
to understand to find to unbraid to accept to question
the grief the grief the grief the grief
we shift we wield we bury
into light as ash
across our faces
Copyright Credit: Layli Long Soldier, "Obligations 2" from New Poets of Native Nations. Copyright © 2018 by Layli Long Soldier. Reprinted by permission of Layli Long Soldier.