Twisted History the Rape of the Plains People
just another historical injustice that reinforces the shame I so often feel for my own species
Having finally managed
to remove
the sharpest of jagged
shards from
distant high mountains
and carrying
them home with him ..
He made fire in a hollow
with dry weeds
and the leaves he took
from some
faraway forest which lies
somewhere
beyond the great grey
tumbling river ..
Then he burnt both sage
and saffron
to heal and to colour his
rage and his anger ..
In the wake of the rape
of his people
and all those whom he
loved
and the land he revered ..
Then later,
in silence he fashioned
so many
straight arrows from flint
he had
stored and hid in his tepee ..
The rest
is now history albeit twisted ..
Yet before
they eventually crucified him,
they all said
it was a massacre and called
him a savage ..
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Hi Neville,
They should use the word humanity differently when looking at what us humans do and have done to each other throughout history
great piece
Lorna x
You are not wrong Lorna .. in which case you must be write .. and I thank you most kindly my friend .. Neville x
This is written with such clarity and beauty also Nev, and just like the kids we send off to war and then lament with such sincerity only to send different kids a generation or two later...the American Indian along with all other lost cultures and tribes will one day, I suspect, be given their own
'poppy days' or a version of...and revered with such sincerity as we realise the loss of more mysterious, magical.and spiritual peoples....even as we are killing off more. Man is insane. X
Thanks our M .. I know, I could bang on about the great injustices of this world throughout history forever .. but who is really interested these days eh .. too many wrapped up in their own little world to give a fig for anyone else either living, or dead .. and any way, you banged my drum for me chuck ta for that .. Neville x
I honestly think it's not that they don't care...it's just that Joe blogs really doesn't have time to think...it is the nature of power to keep we minions working too hard and too long for barely enough to get by on. Deep thinking can only really be achieved with its friend time by its side Nev, if we as a species really want to change things we would, I believe, need to rewrite our entire power structures and distribution of wealth...maybe then millions of 'Joe blogs' would have the time to really think and also action their thoughts in a meaningful way...hugs X