In 1993, NASA trained one of its eyes in the sky
on Saturn’s orbit around the Sun as seen by us,
on this blue-green dot of life. Saturn, also cradled
in the palm of our Sun as we all float in the arms 
of the flaming glory that is our Milky Way Galaxy.

Sideways of 1993 was 1970.
Six magnificent beings of the Orcinus orca kind 
were Stolen from their family, kin, and home, 
by capitalist whiteness for greed disguised as
so-called education for the rest of us. 

Only Sk’aliCh’elh-tenaut,  Tokitae, Lolita, to those who care,
survives in captivity, a Being whose body and soul 
was recaptured millions of times more
by eyes, and cameras at some Seaquarium.
Saturn returns bearing an Orca’s grief and the 
discredited soul(s) of life forms beyond the human.

i don’t know about you, but i have not been godly 
in these matters in all these years Saturn’s 
been making its ringed orbit around the Sun.

i have been to a zoo or two
a colonizer, indeed, 
entitled to gawk at fellow beings penned up 
in zoos, doing tricks, and such,
for the killer human need for fun, 
money, and you name it, at the expense of another.

my crocodile tears welling up and overflowing
do not mean a thing because i, 
like my kind, the human, 
live entitled to this whole planet,
trading our Hunhu/Ubuntu, our creatureliness,
for profit and pleasure minus awakening.

Haven’t we humans become the killer whales on this planet,
projecting and hiding our murderous behaviors while 
petting ourselves on the back for rescuing 
what we destroy(ed) in the first place?

The white savior syndrome has poisoned this planet 
with its colonizing gaze and rapacious mind.

Yesterday the white savior gaze 
only saw some human rights 
for the enslaved and the colonized, 
fellow humans, the Others that white ways and white means 
almost killed off, in the name of civilization.
Saving the savage Natives from the wild Earth, no?

What will we do, 
between now and when Saturn returns 
to the same spot in the sky in 2051?
Will Saturn find our planet overrun 
with zoos, aquariums, and private game reserves,
with us humans saving all other creatures 
from the Earth itself?

Will we be saving fish from drowning?
or Lions from the savannah? 
whitening the Earth to forget an Orca’s grief?!