Poem created through a painting I rendered. |
The Red Road Teacher Lies Quietly For Now Eyes Closed In Clouded Repose Tricked A Long Time Ago By Firewater And Fear To Hide The Truth That Which Was Held Most Dear Not Only For The Red Race Was This Truth Denied Every Creature Learned To Cry Whether Two-Legged, Four-Legged Winged Or Finned The Green People, Rock People Star People, All Kin Became Victims And Pawns In This Soul Wrenching Game This Land So Loved Raped And Plundered Burned And Pillaged All Life Put Asunder By White-Man's Thunder Or So It Seems As The Real Truth Comes Forth In All Life's Dreams Nothing Is Really Lost Only Transformed As Our Spirits Can Withstand Any Storm Beautiful Butterfly Children Compassion Their Greatest Task Metamorphosing New Forms Ones That Will Forever Last As They Travel The Sunshine Highway To The Birth Of A New World The Key They Have Found Hidden Within All This Time The Doorway To Heaven Stands Open Love And Peace The New Language That Will Be Spoken Taught By Friends And Family Though Angels We Believed Them To Be Standing Beside The Pearly Gates Patiently Waiting For Us To See Heartfelt Prayer Is The True Key That Unlocks The Chains Of Bondage That Will Allow Us All To Be Free They Are And Were The Same As You And Me Only No Longer Confined By Gravity, Mass And Time The Tears Stop Now As All Realize Mother Earth Lives And She Has All-Knowing Eyes Watching Over All That Mankind Does She Has Proclaimed In A Voice Unmistakable None Kill So That Others May Survive Her Hands Are Many Reaching Far And Wide Some Red, Some Yellow Some Black, Some White Some Female, Some Male Some Old, Some Young Some Have Begun New Children These Are Sent Forth On The Warrior's Path Not Of Fear, Anger, Hatred Or Greed But Of Peace, Hope, Compassion And Love The Knowledge They Possess Will Be Shared Soon By All That Knowledge Eve Embraced Long Before The Fall The Fruit Of The Gods Eve's Femininity Saw Though She Slumbers Now Hypnotized By Guilt Soon She Will Awaken Daydreaming A Brand New Quilt Composed Of Threads Of Comfort, Strength Nurturing And Knowing A New World She Will Be Sewing Each Stitch Interwoven With Heart's Love Overflowing His Spirit's Fire She Will Stoke Removing Society's Smoke Helping Him To See Helping Him To Be Free From Burdens Too Long Born Birthed From The Storm Of Forgetfulness His Memory Has Been Dimmed By Society's Brainwashing Hymn No Tears Or Signs Of Weakness The Lyrics Say Love, Nurturing And Gentleness A Real Man Keeps At Bay Work, Provide, Be Strong Never Let Yourself Be Percieved In Patriarchy's Eyes As Wrong Soon This Deceitful Song Will No Longer Belong In Our New World Of All Peoples Loving, Gentle And Strong All Of This Will Coincide With The Return Of The Red Star By Our Side Reminding Us Of Times Past Roots And Seeds Actions And Deeds The Goal Being Unity And Freedom For All From The Bondage Begun Aeons Ago By Dogmatic Patriarchy And History's Lies Sown Upon The Soil Of Greed We Will Remember Elements Five Not Only Earth, Air, Water And Fire But Also Ether Alchemical Fire The Stuff Of Creation Holder Of Power The Esoteric Secret Our Rescuer In Earth's Eleventh Hour Creator Gods And Goddessess We Are Birthed We Were Ancestors Of A Distant Star Blame We Have Cast Here And There Forgetting Our Part In Earth's Percieved Nightmare Soon We Will Remember And Take Responsibility Not With Artificial Shame But With Divine Sensibility Mistakes We Will Admit The Consequences Of Which We Must Strive Not To Forget As From These We Must Learn Not As Sins Cast By Satan But As Lessons To Be Discerned Forgiving Ourselves And Others With The Knowledge That We Are All Children Here On Earth School Learning Love And Growing Blessings |