Mon 5 May 2025
They
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They care
but they do not care.
We are luminous lights
that attract them
and repel them,
flooding the nighttime
with our concerns,
stamping the land
with our billions of feet,
covering over
what is theirs
what we claim as ours.
Would they end us
if they could,
the otherlings, the spirits,
the beings living beside
the things of our world?
They care
but they do not care.
We burn their eyes,
we poison their lips,
we cut and chop and boil
without respect or thanks,
but we are stitched
to their sides,
and they to us,
a shrouded veil away.
We walk amongst them
as they walk amongst us.
Here
but not here,
caring
but not caring.
—PJ Thompson
