What a morning, hein?

A residential building collapsed

In Kyiv under the relentless attack

Of Iranian-made Shahed drones

Launched by russia, while

In Tehran residential areas burn

Under the israeli attacks, while

In Gaza people get shot reaching for bread, while

In America, the army attacks civilians, while

In Canada we still somehow believe that

We can buy our way out of this by building pipelines, while

We breath in the toxic air from the prairies wildfires.

We are all sitting in our grief,

Our very own separate grief,

If only,

As my favourite writer suggests, we’d joined our grief together

We would make an ocean

We would build an island, a continent, a whole new earth,

We would rebuild the world anew

If only…