As you are gathering with your families:
As you laugh and sing;
Watching fireworks displays;
Are you remembering?
You celebrate a birthday, one free from tyranny;
My people have a birthday as well today.
It is to remember the beginning of death and slavery.
You became masters of;
The very things you escaped.
Religious persecutions;
Theft, death, and rape.
You place your hand to your heart;
And pledge love and loyalty.
Ignoring all the deaths you cause;
And proclaiming you are free.
Terrorism and genocide;
Extermination of children.
If this is the price of your liberty;
You are not really free.
Shove food into your face;
While you starve another race.
Upon the money that you worship;
You write in God we trust.
And eager to create more wars;
To satisfy your lust.
Land of the free;
Home of bravery.
Today what you celebrate;
Is death and slavery.
Darlene Dotson ~ Cherokee Proud
In Silence I Hear Too Much
Your silence is tearing me apart;
For in it , I hear too much.
Those sounds breaks my heart.
Humanity losing it's touch.
In silence, I hear the cries;
I hear her life force drain.
As Great Mother Earth dies;
And struggles to remain.
In silence, I hear her weep;
As the stomachs of babies grumble.
And as her adult children sleep;
Not a peep, not a mumble.
Won't someone speak on her behalf?
Won't they stand and shout?
Won't they raise their coup staff?
Before all her hopes give out.
Darlene Doll Dotson
Godzilla, Sunday afternoon movie
The words do not match, groovy
Think I'm turning Japanese?
Think my life is much ease?-Please!
Green lizard toy causes anxiety.
Mom I was able to finish the limerick assignment, finally.
Hope you like it.
I have assigned it to David Dotson to keep the game going.
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