At times they were kind,
They were polite in their sophistication.
Smiling but never too loudly
Acting in civilized manner,

An illusion of gentleness
Always fighting to get their way.
While the People see…the People know
The People Wait, the People say
“The closing of your doors will
Never shut us out,”
“The closing of your doors
can only shut you in,”
We know the predator
We see them feed on us
We are aware to starve the
beast is our destiny
The times they were kind
They were polite
But never honest.

We see your technological
Society devour you
Before your very eyes
We hear your anguished cries
Exalting greed through
Progress while you seek
Material advances
The sound of flowers dying
Carry messages through the Wind
Trying to tell you about
Balance and your safety.
But your minds are chained to your machines
And the strings dangling from your puppeteer’s hands
Turning you twisting you into forms of confusion
Beyond your control

Your mind for a job
Your mind for a t.v
Your mind for a hairdryer
Your mind for consumption.

With your atom bombs your material bombs your drug bombs
Your racial bombs your class bombs and your sexist bombs
Your ageless bombs devastating your natural shelters
Making you homeless on earth

Chasing you into illusions…pulling you
Making you pretend you can run away from the
Ravishing of your spirit
While the sound of flowers dying
Carry messages through the wind
Trying to tell you about balance and your safety.
Trying to isolate us in a dimension called lonliness.
Leading us into the trap, “believe in their power”.
But not in ourselves.
Piling us with guilt… always taking the blame
Greed chasing out the balance
Trying to isolate us in a dimension called lonliness

Economic deities seizing power through illusions created
Armies are justified class systems are democracy
God listens to war mongers prayers
Tyranny is here…………. divide and conquer
Trying to isolate us in a dimension called lonliness
Greed inherent insecurity the happiness companion
Genocide conceived in so fist toe ca tion
Technologic material civilization
A rationalization
Replacing a way to live trying to isolate us
in a dimension called lonliness.

To God,
We hope you don’t mind but
We would like to talk to you.
There are some things we need to straighten out
It’s about these christians.
They claim to be from your nation, but man
You should see the things they do
All the time blaming it on you.
Manifest Destiny, Genocide, Maximized Profits,
Sterilization, Raping the Earth Blind,
Taking more than they need in all the forms of the Greed
We ask them why
They say it’s God’s will
Damn God they make it so hard
Remember Jesus?
Would you send Him back to them?
Tell them not to kill Him,
Rather they should listen.
Stop abusing His name and yours
We do not mean to be disrespectful
But you know how it is…..
Our People have their own ways
We never even heard of you until not long ago.
Your representatives spoke magnificent things of you
Which we were willing to believe
But From the way they acted we know
You and we were being deceived
We do not mean you or any
Of your christian children any bad
But you all came to take all we had
We have not seen you but we have heard so much
It is for you to decide what life is worth
We already remember but maybe you forgot

Look at us we are of earth and water
Look at them it is the same
Look at us we are suffering all these years
Look at them they are connected
Look at us we are in pain
Look at them surprised at our anger
Look at us we are struggling to survive
Look at them expecting sorrow be benign
Look at us we are the ones called pagans
Look at them on their arrival
Look at us we are called subversives
Look at them descending from name callers
Look at us we went sadly in the long dark
Look at them hiding in technologic light
Look at us we buried the generations
Look at them they invented the body count
Look at us we are older than america
Look at them chasing a fountain of youth
Look at us we are embracing earth
Look at them clutching today
Look at us we are living in the generations
Look at them existing in jobs and debt
Look at us we have escaped many times
Look at them they cannot remember
Look at us we are healing
Look at them their medicine is patented
Look at us we are trying
Look at them what are they doing?
Look at us we are children of earth
Look at them who are they?

~ John Trudell

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