Twisted History the Rape of the Plains People
Having finally managed
to remove
the sharpest of jagged
shards from
distant high mountains
and carrying
them home with him ..
He made fire in a hollow
with dry weeds
and the leaves he took
from some
faraway forest which lies
somewhere
beyond the great grey
tumbling river ..
Then he burnt both sage
and saffron
to heal and to colour his
rage and his anger ..
In the wake of the rape
of his people
and all those whom he
loved
and the land he revered ..
Then later
in silence he fashioned
so many
straight arrows from flint
he had
stored and hid in his tepee ..
The rest
is now history albeit twisted ..
Yet before
they eventually crucified him,
they said
it was a massacre and called
him a savage ..