We know that the white man does not understand our
ways. One portion of the land is the same to him as the next,
for he is a stranger who comes in the night and
takes from the land whatever he needs. The earth is not
his brother, but his enemy—and when he has conquered
it, he moves on. He leaves his fathers’ graves,
and his children’s birthright is forgotten.
—Chief Seattle
Godless, we placed a king in God’s
spot;
started doing it in 1 Samuel chapter 8,
and the corruption began.
A curse was upon any people who did
not supplicate to a Power greater
than themselves.
See it in England, among other places,
the United States with its “democracy”
and “separation.”
All a curse, seen and manifested in slavery
to kings and perversion.
Slavery!
God said it would be, and it was—and so
they set out in 1606 under kingly mandates,
the will to please a man, not God.
Godless, they arrived in Virginia.
Godless, they see a native people, but ignored
them long enough to erect some timber
and a fort.
Long enough to nod “hello,” but by the
way, on order of a godless king who thinks
he is God:
You do not matter.
And this land, we usurp for our king,
and we shall call it “Jamestown,” after
the godless King James—
The people sheep to a man, as they
were since “crowning” Saul.
The Judeo-Christian cursed itself, banished
God, ignored the Indian, and called it
“Jamestown” in 1607.
My forefathers were there, befuddled, confused
Welshmen three.
Watkins brothers cursed for the concept
of “king.”
And so they called it “Jamestown.”
The “conquering” had begun, by killing
the Indian we killed ourselves, the land.
By conquering the Indians, we conquered ourselves.
I am “white,” my people from Wales,
invading in the name of a man named
“James” in 1607.
We left our fathers behind, instead of
standing up to the insanity of men
oppressing men and women at home.
We robbed land, without natural or
God’s right we “named” the land after
a godless king.
Wales awaits my return, I hope—
for what else can be done but action
amends for the insanity of our
godless past?
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