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Before. (part 4)

My seed was planted.

My home was growing,

I couldn’t believe what life had shown me

Love,

I have witnessed blessings from above,

But none were they as appreciated as love

I love my wife,

With her shape taken directly from her mother,

Earth, he skin ton resembled the most nurturing soil,

Each curve flowing into the next

With such precision a machine could only attempt to mimic.

Her eyes could tell no lies,

Pools of brown that turned my world upside down.  

And my children,

Young and in love,

With life, just as I had taught them.

They turned to the land every time they needed a friend,

After all they knew where I conceived them,

The stars in their eyes, so beautiful, people would orbit,

Their gravity was unmolested,

They were children of the wind

I could do little to stop, them.

Nothing could take this lion off his throne.

My mane was long and strong.

No beast would dare infringe upon my family.

Nor man.    

But white devil never known my land,

Never known my children,

Never known my people.

As I protect my pride,

I watch,

I watch the lands, ravaged.

I watch,

I watch my people, locked and chained

I watch,

I watch my family, crying from pain

I watch sun lose its shine.

The animals lose time,

Our gold does not glitter anymore,

Our blood has spilled

Disbanding the throne.

Now,

After we left our mother at home,

In shackles,

We bow our weeping heads,

Hoping for a morsel,

Her children need to be fed.

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Feb 15, 2012
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