Poetic Stories of Native Americans
Hunger led you through
the Bering Straits
to discover new possibilities
in the foreign, distant land.
You were hunters, brave and great,
chasing animals for your survival,
walking thousands of miles –
hunting to sustain existence.
Your other brothers,
set sail in their catamarans
from Polynesian Islands
through the ocean expanses.
Roaring winds, mass of water,
walls of treacherous waves,
sinking many of your boats -
huge billows of water were falling
to the abyss, on your ships.
The bravest of you,
came to the new shores
of imaginary, fantastic worlds.
Then, thousands of years later
came hostile brothers to the lands of yours.
They put claim on your dominion
and they diminished many Native Nations.
Ancient ways of life
those of yours, distinct culture,
which they wrongly understood,
putting their seal of polluted world.
Copyright © Art Wielgus | Year Posted 2016
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