Dear Editor:
The following expresses my poetic perspective re the pipeline blockade:
What’s in the pipeline?
What’s in the pipeline?
Is it liquefied gas?
It’s much more than that.
You can bet your sweet a–!
It’s the theft of our land,
So say the First Nations.
It’s colonialism
And huge corporations.
What’s in the pipeline?
Is it liquefied gas?
It’s our ruling government
Trying to trespass.
Resources robbed
From Turtle Island.
This land is your land.
This land is my land.
What’s in the pipeline?
Is it liquefied gas?
Will negotiations
Reach an impasse?
The railway systems
Have been shut down
Across the country,
Through city and town.
What’s in the pipeline?
Is it liquefied gas?
It’s greed and corruption.
Great fortunes amass.
The drums beat loudly
For all to hear:
Our sovereignty and
Our land is dear.
What’s in the pipeline?
Is it liquefied gas?
The Indigenous people
Are not second class!
Our planet is sick
And in great jeopardy.
We must choose
Clean sources of energy.
What’s in the pipeline?
Is it liquefied gas?
It’s much more than that.
You can bet your sweet a–!
Sandra Owen,
Fergus