WHEN WILL THEY SEE
ALL MY LIFE WHILE GROWING UP,
I KNEW SOMETHING WASN'T QUITE RIGHT,
I ALWAYS FELT DIFFERENT FROM OTHER KIDS,
MY SKIN DARKER, WHILE THE OTHERS WERE LIGHT...
INSIDE MY HEART WAS A LONGING,
WHAT IT WAS I DID NOT KNOW,
I WANTED DESPERATELY TO LEARN,
SO DEEP INSIDE SO I COULD GROW...
SOMETHING WAS MISSING INSIDE OF ME,
WHILE OTHERS WERE SURE WHO THEY WERE,
I WAS RAISED IN THE WHITE WORLD,
BUT MY SPIRIT WAS ALWAYS A STIR...
I WAS TOLD I WAS PART NATIVE,
BY MY GRANDPARENTS IN SECRECY,
MY MOTHER SAID NEVER TO SPEAK OF THIS,
MY FATHER WOULD NOT LET THIS BE...
I WAS NOT ALLOWED TO KNOW OF THE THINGS,
THAT MADE ME WHO I AM,
MY PEOPLE WERE OF GREAT PRIDE,
WHO CARED SO MUCH FOR THE LAND...
NOT UNTIL I WAS AN GROWN,
DID I LEARN OF MY FORE FATHERS,
WITH SO MUCH WANTING INSIDE OF ME,
WHY DIDN'T MY FATHER BOTHER...
AS I WALK THIS PATH I CALL MY OWN,
I AM BEGINNING TO UNDERSTAND,
THE PRINCIPLE PEOPLE MY PAST,
WAS HERDED FROM THIER MOTHER LAND...
IT WASN'T A COOL THING TO BE NATIVE,
THEY WERE TREATED SO BADLY IN LIFE,
TO CLAIM YOU WERE A RED SKIN,
WAS TO ASK FOR TROUBLE FROM THE WHITES...
THEY WERE ASHAMED TO ADMIT WHO THEY WERE,
THEY WOULD BE PUNISHED FOR BEING ALIVE,
TO BE TREATED LIKE ANIMALS IN A PEN,
THEY WOULD RATHER HAVE DIED...
THE TURMOIL THAT THEY ENDURED,
I CAN NOT BEGIN TO UNDERSTAND,
WHY HUMANS OF ANY COLOR,
SHOULD BE DRIVEN FROM THIER LAND...
THE GREAT SPIRIT PUT ALL OF US HERE,
TO CARE FOR MOTHER EARTH,
HE DIDN'T JUDGE US OR PICK AND CHOOSE,
WHEN HE INITIATED OUR BIRTHS...
WE ARE ALL THE SAME IN HIS EYES,
HE LOVES US ONE AND ALL,
WHEN WILL THE PEOPLE OF THE RAINBOW,
BE ABLE TO JOIN HANDS STAND TALL?
TO COMPLETE THIS CIRCLE WE CALL LIFE,
TO LOVE AND TAKE A STAND,
TO BECOME BLIND TO ALL THE UNJUST,
TO SEE PAST THE SKIN SUITS OF MAN...
TO KNOW THE GOOD IN EACH OTHERS HEARTS,
AND FORGET ALL THAT HAD BEEN DONE,
TO GATHER AND BE OF ONE PEOPLE,
TO BE ONE TRIBE UNDER THE SUN...
THE GOVERNMENT IS TRYING,
TO MAKE US QUITE AGAIN,
THEY INPRISON THE INNOCENT PEOPLE,
TO ADD TO THIER SELFISH GAIN...
SO MANY HAVE SUFFERED THROUGH THE YEARS,
AND THEY HAVE LOST ALL THEY HAD,
THIER LAND, THIER DIGNITY, AND THIER PRIDE,
THIS MAKES MY HEART SO SAD...
THESE WERE MY PEOPLE,
THAT WERE TREATED THIS WAY,
THEY WERE TORTURED AND EXPOSED TO THE GREED,
OF A PEOPLE OF WHO COULD NOT SEE...
WE ARE THE PRINCIPLE PEOPLE,
BUT WERE MADE TO RUN AND HIDE,
TO SAVE WHAT LITTLE WE HAD LEFT,
TO KEEP OUR TRADITIONS ALIVE...
I PRAY TO THE GREAT SPIRIT,
THAT SOMEDAY ALL CAN BE,
ONE COLOR, AND ONE ENITY,
TO CLOSE THIS VAST CIRCLE,
OH GRANDFATHER, WHEN WILL THEY SEE?
BY: JOYCE MOUNTAIN LION
JUNE 28, 2000
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