They came into the land
\nThey came across the water
\nOr so we were told
\nThey came from thin air
\nThey stood by the river and streams
\nAnd pour did they their waste
\nFrom their bowels and pails
\nInto the waters that the day sun
\nUses to replenish the sky
\nFrom which the great bear
\nAnd the smallest of our kin drink
\nThey put a bounty on our elders
\nThey paid a bounty for the hair
\nAnd the ears of our mother\u2019s sons
\nThe bravest of the heroes from their
\nWar of the two houses divided
\nOver the ownership of woman and man
\nGalloped into the camp of the elders
\nAnd those that watched over our lives
\nAnd took life from our women and children
\nIn the name of God they did these
\nBut not by God\u2019s hand were these done
\nBy the hand of greed and the hand of lies
\nThere is but one God and all are that One
\nThe one whose hand dropped down
\nAnd the one whose life ran away
\nThe one that was no more, now gray smoke
\nAnd the one that now cries when he prays
\nThe living must forgive and remember
\nThe dead must move on into our dreams
\nBut the earth, the mother of the slain
\nAnd the mother of the living, remembers
\nShe is a women denied a child by a child
\nShe is torn between love and pain
\nAs she morns one and hopes for another
\nHer tears are polluted with the waste
\nFrom the bowels and from the pails
\nCry for her and cry for the child that remains
\nPray for her and pray for the child that remains<\/p>\n
\u00a9 1997 Tim D. Coulter Sr.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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