If I Were an Ewok, My Sister Would Take Me and Name Me Sunshine

Well she actually said

if you were an Ewok I would rescue you and name you Sunshine

build you a tiny house in my backyard

make your salads out of sunflowers

comb your hair

tickle your belly until your feet start to look like hairy propellers

            She would cuddle me

            until my dreams are of thick forests

            high treehouses

            two moons in the sky

            filled with endless stars

            Cuddle me

            until my planet is emptied

            from warmongers

            planet thieves

            planet destroyers

            golden gods

            troopers

            rebels

            She would cuddle me back

            to where her ancestors sang protection songs

            in the morning beauty songs

She would tell me stories about her people

how strangers from a distant land came and forced them to march

how they had sticks that shot out lightning

rods that cut deep

forced them to march

had them walk across the borders of their homeland

had them watch as they murdered their women and children

            I would tell her stories about my people

            how strangers from a distant planet

            forced us to fight for our lives

            how they had sticks that shot out lightning

            rods that burned deep

            forced us to fight their war

            had us watch as they murdered our women and children

She would tell me of how these strangers came on horses

how they ran her people off cliffs

            I would tell her how these strangers came in the belly of metal beasts

            how they ran over my people

She would tell me how they came like shooting stars

            I would tell her how they came on shooting stars

She would tell me about the day her people signed a treaty to go home

how they promised to learn their strange ways

she would sing the songs they sang on their way into their sacred mountains

how they relit the fires in their homes to ward off future threats

            I would tell her about the day we watched the death star die

            how we celebrated

            how we used the helmets of our enemies as drums

            how we raised the fires to ward off future threats

That was the day she told me they started to see more strangers on their land

            That was the day I started to see more strangers on our planet

More people with lightning sticks

            more people with rods that burn deep

More like shooting stars riding in with flags

            more shooting stars landing in our fields

She would tell me how they were here to “save” her and her people

            I would tell her how they needed to “save” me and my people

How they would give them freedom

            how they would rescue us from the Dark Side

 They never stopped

 They took language by force

 they destroyed sacred sites

 polluted water

 until there was only the litter of war left

 so they took to the stars

 to a galaxy far far away

We would sit

let our tears trail down our faces

gazing at the stars

mapping out the systems

holding each other as sisters