Before the borders

Before the flags

Before the maps

Before the names and settler claims

There once was those.

Those who walked the land.

With open heart and hands

Those that lived.

Lived off one another.

Those that had a community.

A community that stood tall

With a way of life

Far different from our own

Those that lived off hunting.

Those that loved farming and fishing.

Those that came first and got robbed.

Before the borders

Before the flags

Before the maps

Before the names and settler claims

There once was those.

Those that were united with the spirt.

Those that felt the flow of water as life.

So, let’s honor them.

Not with just words

Let’s honor them.

And let justice live.

Let the truth be heard.

For in this wisdom

The soul of Canada shines through.

I stand up. 

I refuse to believe

Believe that we can’t end

End the violence 

End the abuse 

Abuse against our mothers

Abuse against our sisters 

Abuse against all women and girl

We take a stand 

A stand to speak

A stand to make our voice heard

We don’t support 

The endless violence

The endless discrimination

We rise

We speak

We end the pain

End the dry tears

We must protect

For all the women rights

For all those that can’t be heard

We must teach

Teach our brothers and fathers 

Teach to respect

Respect all women and girl

Teach to end

End the gender based violence

For a future

A future of peace and equality

A future of prideness

A future where no voice is small 

For all the women 

We stand up.

A love that was short lived 

A love that was trying to defy the odds 

The odds of hate 

The hate between the montague and the capulet 

A love full of tragedy with death and banishment 

Both side losing a close one 

A love that’s unmatched 

A love at first glance

The glance of one another 

Like 2 magnets 

Their hearts were drawn together 

But like magnets

They have two sides that don’t attract

One being a montague and the other being a capulet 

An ancient grudge that comes between the two

But this doesn’t stop too the young lovers 

As Romeo writes his thought

His thoughts about love sitting down in the heat of the sun as he writes 

“Love is a smoke made with fume of sighs being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes” (1.1.184-185)

As Romeo sees Juliet for the first time

The young lover is surprised by the beauty of young Juliet

As he cannot believe in such beauty 

He lets his heart take over 

The young lover goes back 

Goes to the capulet mansion 

Goes to his family enemies 

All just for love 

But to his luck he finds his lover

As his lover Juliet stands on the balcony 

The young lover could not believe that such beauty can exist 

As he takes every glimpse of her as the moon shines upon her lighting up her beauty.

Listening to all the beautiful words she’s reciting

“O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?

Deny thy father and refuse thy name;(2.2.35-38)

Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love,

And I’ll no longer be a Capulet.” 

With Juliet unaware of the presence of her love

Young Romeo felt the need to make his presence felt 

Upon listening to his lover reciting words for him 

He can’t bare but make his presence felt to her 

As the two lovers touch and feel the glimpse of one another 

None want to let go 

None wants the other to leave 

As they hold each other tight with their eyes forecasting love and affection for one another 

They agree to forever love each other but 

Will it last I guess will see 

As Friar Laurence agrees to marry them

Will they live a happy ending as their love desires 

I guess we’ll see 

As tho Friar Laurence isn’t the only one who knows of this marriage the nurse helps Juliet

Our younger lovers get together

They are bonded in the holy way as they get married 

But Tybalt disapproves he challenges and starts a fight

As two souls are lost

Mercutio dies in the arms of Romeo

“A plague o' both your houses

They have made worms' meat of me” (3.1.101-102)

With anger and sadness for a lose

Young Romeo seeks revenge

Kills Tybalt in the revenge 

The prince and the two families who hates one another 

Capulete and montague arrive too late 

Late to find two souls from their houses taken 

As young Benvolio explains what happened 

The prince banishes Romeo 

And the news of the banishment breaks out 

The nurse hurry’s to young Juliet 

As the young Juliet learns she lost her cousin 

In the hands of her new husband 

Young Juliet sends a message through the nurse

As the young lovers get together for their wedding night 

Young Juliet is filled with tears as her new husband has to leave at first sight of sunrise

Young Juliet thinks the life she badly wants is over 

Her eyes refuse to see the man she loves go so they blur the memory with tears.

As the lady capulet walks in and hear young Juliet in tears

She gives her good news about how she’s marrying the young paris

Little did the lady capulet know young Juliet was already married 

Married to her true love young Romeo 

In desperate young Juliet seeks to Friar Laurence for help 

As he gives her a poison that will put her in a deep sleep to make it seem as if her soul is lost 

As if she died to escape the unwanted marriage with Paris and reunite with her true love Romeo

Upon hearing this young Romeo due to little miscommunication 

He goes to an apothecary who sells him poison

As young Romeo ask for something that will kill him quickly 

He Sets on to go to the laying place of her love 

As young Romeo sees and kisses his lifeless wife

“Here’s to my love! O true apothecary, Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss, I die.” (5.3.120-121)

Young Romeo kills himself as he can’t bare living without his beloved wife 

As young Juliet wakes up to find her one true love 

Her husband dead besides her with an empty bottle of poison besides him

“What’s here? A cup, closed in my true love’s hand? 

Poison, I see, hath been his timeless end. 

O churl, drink all; and leave no friendly drop 

To help me after! I will kiss thy lips. 

Haply some poison yet doth linger on them, 

To make me die with a restorative.” (5.3.167-172)

Upon kissing her true love she realizes the severity of the situation 

Taking her soul 

Killing herself with young Romeo’s dagger

Love cannot last among hate 

Leading to desperation and acts not well thought over 

In a world where 2 loves couldn’t defy the odds of hate 

The hate of their families 

One being a montague and the other being a capulet 

A love without a happy ending 

A love with a tragic ending of death 

One can hope 

Their souls are together in the afterlife.