As Sayings Go

And that is how we voyaged across the
Floating essential element reflected by the sky.
That is how we wondered where day had run dry
And held, kept by human hands.
We wondered for nothing seemed sane
We knew nothing of machinery,
We smiled even to the harshness of the voice
We were like children, AND THEN WE ARRIVED!
After scores had been given goodbyes.
We saw habitations upon the land
And they looked at us askance and sneered,
Some spat and jeered and told us when
To do and what to fuck. They put us in pens.
And wagers of work knew nothing of wage.
Beneath the sun, we remembered the fields
Of youth, where we fed our children and adored our women.
But now we were being told not to think. Tribal
Councils where we sat and communed with the future
Were lost to some of us. And now we were being
Told not to think, to bow our heads we who had
Been kings. Who conquered the wilderness and tamed
The fiends of the forest, the secrets of the wild had been ours.
Beneath the heat we wondered.

But we learned to smile, We learned to speak
The words, they wanted us speachless, we honned our skills and
Studied symbols, we read and ran and fought for all we could,
We grew up strong. And the seasons changed, the old adage,
We grew up tough and yes, even in 2014, even in this day
After the bloody spills, after grown cities sought our hands,
Grew on what we owned, we still hear the asides and took to
Smiles for every now and then voices amongst us would grow
Bold and we would raise up tall. Machinery? Nothing of the sort,
Only cowardice and the misery of ineptitude: things that could
Not be hoped for!