A lively, off-the-cuff conversation hosted by Tuesday Ryan-Hart and Tim Merry on large-scale systems change and equity. Together, Tim and Tuesday are THE OUTSIDE - systems change and equity facilitators who bring the fresh air necessary to organize movements, organizations, and collaborators forward… read more
In episode twelve, Tim and Tuesday talk about how we honour and interpret our ancestors’ actions, roles, and impacts — think reverberations of colonialism and class — to grasp the underpinnings of our current world.
POEM: ‘The Boxer’ by Tim Merry
They abandoned me
They should have been there
I was left
Bereft
Alone
Curled up under a duvet cover from home
Wishing to not be seen
Heart beating, scared
“Why did you leave me here?”
Fear
Pulsing
Red, jagged and spiralling
From solar plexus out
Running frantic energy through my body
All the way to my fingers and toes
But nowhere to run, nobody I know
To run to
“Where were you?”
This was meant to be grand adventure
Not trauma
Not weeping at 43
Only feeling me
When the tears flow
Hand on heart
We never should have been apart
Our family
You and me
In the empty space
Stepped the boxer, braced
For any attack
Come one, come all
I am ready, poised, watchful
Weaving
Fists up, back to the wall, there is no leaving
Sadness turned to anger
Reading to explode
Unload
When things get beyond control
Protecting my soul
When you did not
I surrounded myself with a team of defenders
Boxer
Charmer
Actor
Fixer
Worker
Joker
Lover
Anger
Server
Connector
All to keep the world at bay
Because it was not safe
To come out and play
Now slowly I am peeping out
My blurry eyed head
Over parapet walls
There is me
Looking in
To the place I protected
Where I am not longer connected
Meeting eye to eye
Starting to cry
More tears to flow
More of myself to know
If I dare go slow
With the flow
Of what the wisdom of my psyche
Is unveiling to me now
At 43
I am coming back home, to me
Song of the day: Oppression, Ben Harper
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Duration: 38:24
Produced by: Mark Coffin @ Sound Good Studios
Theme music: Gary Blakemore
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