| Written: AUG 19, 2003 |
The enflamed steady stare,
dark and animalistic it can unnerve them.
Fiery, quick to violence, yet subdued
and shattered to the core.
Essences within tearing, scream for release
but we cannot let it be.
Our ways take on the greed of the oppressor,
and we learn not from our mistakes.
Too far flung to our little dungeons of freedom;
live here in the remote country, be a chieftain,
a king among distraught cattle.
We fight only for what we should by rights have,
when as our blood should call us to make what is right
for the Mother and all of us residing still
in the growth of her womb.
This I gain from my people,
the first nations once proud…
Once grand, fallen now from grace,
rather die we would, than take scraps.
Sadly many of us die just for that reason.
Time to arise little ones,
stop conforming to their visions of cool.
We are us, better by far, and it is time to act like it.
Embrace us grandmother, teach us your ways.
Run not from the old ways,
for they can let us form our new identity.
And then we all move forward,
not just the anomalies attaining wealth.
Something we never needed before,
But are forced to contend with in the new regime.
Does it take a half-breed
of the people to call it?
Can we not all see it?
Has the green and oil wrought our heads,
blows of power to numerous to see reason.
Is it more important to have the right
to kill off all the fish?
Or our duty to protect them from the others,
greedier than we are becoming?
We lie wardens of Her, mother;
Yet guard her we do not.
Far more important now it has become
to rape the lands before they can.
Quick get the guns, we must defend this
so later we can destroy it.
Lucky:
I viewed that my name
passed me off as what I am,
but my pearl skin denoted me
as the leaders of the land.
I am sought as exotic to most, shunned
by the zealots of either.
Proud in bearing, shy of myself in mind,
I can reap what I sow, shall I get up again?
The are none of my kin here to “help” me.
If they would do that very thing,
I wonder.
I love my people,
now how much the better if they
loved me too.
