Turtle Island....Was Once

Turtle Island..... a name that was once used to describe a land that has no semblence of once was.... as if our earth mother was in need of a make-over now masquerading superficial fabrication as a patient under the spell of a surgeons knife where the salmon were a one time free to return home only facing natural obstacles where the thunderous rumble of the plains announced the mighty bison's return where those majestic birds of flight with their snow capped heads soared high above same snow capped ranges a night sky that at one time lit up like campfires now only to be dimmed by belows illumination sometimes when it rains I wonder if the ancestors weep in disbelief sometimes during a thunderstorm I wonder if they're pounding their chest's like sacred drums , for hope's sake........ have we foresaken honor and respect for the love of greed , and the lack of love........