A Shadow Cast
One man once saw a forbidden land
Under a sky of gold
A place to land
Nature asked the man
Why did he seek?
Was it to gain more land to help feed the weak?
Was it to take the land to prosper on?
What of the native man, what of his home?
The man took the steel and the powder keg
He forced the natives to flee or swore to see them dead
Greed became the key to success and wealth
But nature frowned upon the man!
Nature said no more, this is not your land!
The man ignored nature and chose to fight
To fight all in his way no matter what or who and fight them all with all his might!
The man succeeded and a shadow cast!
Native families ripped in two, tears, blood and death over their grass!
Nature took revenge upon the man
Nature moved the plates of the earth to change the mass!
The rains couldn’t get past the new mountain lines
The crops of man died a thousand times
The man lost it all and died one day.
Left penniless and insane - but he’d had his way!
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