Speak Your Peace: Samantha Estoesta
This piece was originally performed at Cha Island on March 26, 2015 for our local Speak Your Peace! event. It was amazing. Radiation ~~~~~~~~~ My bones are not chalk And yet the osteoporosis that accompanies each fevered thought And impassioned expression of emotional and Unrestricted contemplation Reduces my wails to whispers, My screams to sighs I am stuck between two worlds, Held in orbit by The exoticism of my skin A mestiza of San Fernando and Bagio A Daughter of La Union and Benquet One of the many threads that weave together the Igorot The Estoestas, Panelas, Ulats, Advinculas, Everlistas, Anchetas, Riveras, Estoestas. Our skin is made of the grains of the mountains we carved, Freckled with sunshine flares, Rice water and coconut husks in the resolve of our feet, Our nails are pearls, Stronger than the very currents that shaped the islands we call home Yet We are held in orbit between two worlds Colonized over and over and over again, Eroding the ve