Chapter 64 - Sestina 7 (1/2)

Now you want us

To cry your tears for you

After we've already bled for you

Already been dead to you

Now you want us

To cry your tears for you

Chapters of a democracy story

Descendants of genocide

Twelve score and more years ago

We went from being the majority

To being the smallest minority

Now you want us

To cry your tears for you

We saw that emptying

Early morning skyline

Back through that horizon

Duck Valley 1979, Wounded Knee

Sand Creek, that Trail of Tears

Exactly how did our land

Become your country

Now you want us

To cry your tears for you

While we're still crying tears of our own

With your past as your future

That industrial ruling class

Using religion as a weapon

Distilling love into hate

Pointing fingers and name calling evil

Sacrificing lives and blood

Making the innocent the new v.i.r.g.i.ns

Offering to the gods of profit