Will You Tell Her? Poem by fabian montes

Will you tell her?
that her father was once a robber, a thief, a marginalized ostersized man that grew up on tortillas, peanut butter and welfare,
that his motherher abuelita had a shattered soul and abused prescribed pills codiene, valuim and cocaine
and that she was calciumless everytime she took a step she fell, black eyes, broken feethands, and spirit
Will you tell her?
the truth that her abuelitalooked like a holocuast Jewish women
but dressed in mexican
And that her Abuelo was homelessat 62 in the streets of LA, broken spirit trying to live x heroine addict, fought that disease and won but couldnt fight the disease of poverty living in his brain
would you tell her the painful truth the bloody truth or would you mask it up and tell her that they loved her
if they never got to know her and that they were stupendous citizens of this place that hated them
Would you say to her that her fathers family and her ancestral indegenous family fought each day and night to just survive another day
and that they'vebeen to hell and back with burnt skins, broken minds, but with thier souls still fighting to live another night
Would you or would you brush the truth under your feet and skip the truth and make it sound good and sweet?
I wonder if I died would my family die in Lali's mind for you never choose to see the truth the ugly painful truth of what each famliy is.....