Slaughtered and displaced
defiled, defaced and
stripped of their grace
A culture
sublime
swallowed by time
Bludgeoned by white vanity
Split open by Christianity
Ravaged and poked
Beaten and broke
Set fire and stoked
Promised the world
And granted a sliver
Died in the snow
And bled in the river
The deceit
and the lies
blackened
their skies
and the white man’s
words strangled
their cries
Then, a felonious bribe
To the rightful tribe,
relegated to the dusty
barren yet rusty
minimal subsistence,
tin shack existence
In America
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