Native Americans: A Short Poem in Their Honor

Savages, (you said) they were.

Unfit to live.

Animals.

Brutes.

Evil Incarnate.

Uncivilized.

Wild.

Tame or eliminate (you ordered).

You chose

the second option.

Does being civilized mean destruction

of the waters which sustain us?

of the air we breathe?

of the animals of the plains and forests?

of anything...

.....................unlike ourselves?

If it does,

I should think

I'd rather be wild.