THE LAND WE SHARE

 As I look around I see the trees disappear

There is concrete where once laid grass

The skies that the eagles once occupied have

Been taken over by towering buildings

I awaken to the sweet smell of exhaust fumes

Where there were once clans of families and

I walk by many blank faces with no smiles

This is my peoples native land

Yet our culture seems so foreign

Our waters have become polluted

And many speak of a war yet to come

Diseases have rushed across this

Continent faster than forest fires

And their numbers are larger than

The animals that were once plentiful

We once cut ourselves to share blood

People now cut each other to take blood

We once cooked over open fires

Now we eat radiation-heated food

We once took medicine from nature

We are now freely given chemicals for cures

We once hunted only animals

Today it seems people are to be hunted

All of this in the name of progress

All of this shows how much we care and protect each other

So let it be noted that this advance

Society that we cherish so,

Is the same land that we all must share