Juana Estrada Hernandez
Gila Wilderness, NM
October 25th, 2019
You provide shelter, warmth, protection. Your sole purpose is to help people survive.
Survive. You’re not used to help better the lives of people. My people. Our people.
You have been recontextualized as a material of oppression. A vessel that carries the
hopes and dreams of so many. One that carries the smallest but strongest of heartbeats.
Heartbeats that carry past generations of people. Of people that despite the cold floors,
thirsty dessert nights, calloused feet continue to step forward. Gambling it all to have a
chance to live on the other side of the barbed wire fence.
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