a company of lions
...land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrim's pride, from every mountainside let freedom ring.
sweet land of liberty
land where your father's
father's father
killed my mother's
mother's mother
stripped naked
like a whore
and then spread out
across Arizona
i went back there
back to find her
back to the earth
where she bled
while you wiped your
hands clean with her hair
she died there
and you walked away
with her land
and your pride
that's the day
freedom died
so that you could singCopyright © 2002 by Shannon Gleeson