The sky still blue and spacious
our fields grow golden grains
snow capped mountains
are still viewed in placid reflecting
pools
fruits and nuts are upon our trees
but as for brotherhood between the seas
the good has become harder to find
our light has dimmed
They came seeking relief from religious
oppression
only to convert and pervert what they
found
their freedom meant
the abolishment of the ways of
the new world they had come to
with violence and death
taking more land
there was no self control
no liberty
no real law other than
might made right
for the new people did not honor their
god
and were deserving of death
These were not heroes
they did not liberate the peoples of
this new land
they showed no mercy
there was nothing noble or divine in
their treatment
not of the peoples
nor of the lands that they found
They had a dream
of great alabaster cities
built them
but today
these are filled with empty dilapidated
buildings
the homeless
and the violence that built them
tears run down the cheeks
of mothers and fathers losing their
sons and daughters
tears are shed by the victims
of the religious extremism that was
seeded in those early times
How can we continue to sing America The
Beautiful?
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