Thoughts

I thought of you last night.
It's the first time I've paused.
Will we treat you better?
Not as some drunk Indian.
Will we just keep repeating
History and miss your people.
The people of the dawn,
The first people of this land.
I hope we care for you too.
That we don't delay and avoid.
Because we can learn so much.
If we just for once hold out our hands,
and treat you as our family, our kin.