They came “in peace”
is the story they tell.
Peoples, nations pushed aside.
The white men lied.
More came to escape,
only to create
the same, it seems,
their colonist dreams.
This America
has always been,
as you may have guessed,
about conquest.
Abducted and abused
by skin divided
then whips and chains,
forced labor through pain.
Nothing has changed,
the goal’s the same,
one religion, political schism,
authoritarianism.
Still ruining our lives
with a stroke of their pen.
say they’re on our side
but white men lie.
~ elr
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