Friday, July 11, 2008

RESTITUTION

America and Europe, when your God forces you to
pay the indigenous people of the western continent
for your depredations visited upon us,
What is it you intend to make payment with?

How do you make restitution
when all you have
you have taken from us with heinous force?

When the time arrives for you to examine yourself
to see what it is you have of value
you will see that all you have belongs not to you
but was taken from us by heinous force and much lying

It is true many of you
have many objects that you have purchased from each other
but the objects you exchange were taken, under protest,
from the land of my people

It is true many of you
have purchased much land from each other,
but this portion of earth belongs to my people,
a gift from Gteat Wonder

It is true America and Spain
that you have written many laws
proclaiming that this hemisphere belongs to you alone,
and all the resources found therein,
but your laws are a mockery to justice
and whatever you claim yet belongs to indigenous

Oh trespassers

what is it you intend to make restitution with,
when you have nothing of your own,
you are occupying the earth of indigenous, uninvited
and your presence is unwanted throughout the world?

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