Like the Native Americans Did!

Dedicated to the Standing Rock Sioux and the many protestors and water protectors  

I have a deep philosophical and spiritual respect and appreciation for the way the Native American Indians and indigenous people around the world lived and still live today.

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Land stripped

Mountain tops flipped

Removed

Animals abused

Soiled

Cramped into small pens  

In a barn

At a factory farms

With no dignity

No respect

There is a disconnect

From the sacrifice

Avariciousness has become

The number one vice

We take

We don’t give

Fracking

And earthquakes

The Devil’s walking with bricks

Rivers, lakes and oceans

Over fished

One day filled with only a wish

The food they provide dwindling

But there are profits for corporate kings and queens

To provide some “Bling! Bling!”

Wined and dined

Social status enshrined

While Mother Earth declines

Magnificent landscapes raided

The air that we breathe tainted

Massive glaciers have disappeared

Tropical forest cleared

Lifesaving cures

Seared

Sea levels rising

Super-storms are surprising

Increased tornadoes, hurricanes, and wind storms

Massive downpours

Global warming is

Knocking on the front door…

I wish I could travel back in time

To experience nature in its prime

Like in metaphors and in poetry and in rhyme

When the land was treated divine

When streams  were benign

When the mountains were never mined

When nature had a heart beat

When food was only taken out of necessity

To live on the land

Untamed

To have no one to blame

To witness grizzly bears and buffalo roam

To be connected with nature and at home

On sacred grounds

With spirit like sounds

Like when,

The wind and creatures

Told of the way

When Mother Nature had a say

To be there

Fully alive

To survive

With rituals

To revive

To thrive

With humble

Righteous inhabitants

In a time when respecting the earth was a gift

To live the way some of our human ancestors lived

Before the land was stripped

To know

Not to take lavishly

Instead to bestow

To roam

Nature

The sun aglow

Uninhibited

Without the grid

 Only if,

I could live

Like the Native Americans did!

Authored by Shellie Blevins