Mountain Meadows-

Eyes once dry Marbles shoot
Against Cat’s Eyes
Godfather cracks
Placement
Beyond the safety
Of the protective
Circle

Like ripples
Mosquitoes
On
Kamikaze missions
Buzzzzzzzzz
Over head
In perfect formation
Like covered wagons
Somewhere in Utah
Before the masses

Blood and oceans
Settler’s lives
Taken
And
Blamed
On
The Red man

Framed
For Slaughter
History books hide
The white washed lies
Where there is no honor

Or

Redemption

In a secret coup
Holy War
Against a Nation
That throws innocents
Into the meat grinder

For power
And self
Preservation

How can we forget
The ghosts
Of both red
And white alike

Made
Into
Victims
And
Sacrifices

For
Political
Means
To an end

(matthew bowers) ~93
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