Post by BlackWidow on Nov 2, 2004 8:16:13 GMT -5
It does the soul some good,to learn about the truth
Education is for everyone,not just our growing youth
Even the old and wise can learn a thing or two
The knowledge is found everywhere,the rest is up to you
Grab a book or learn first hand,about anything at all
Walk a mile in someones shoes,understand why they now crawl
Don't be quick to say your piece,less the facts come with the words
For never will a blatant lie,be ever tolerated when heard
To talk of what we know is one thing
To babble what we think is quite another
And though all walks have the right to be voiced
Respect truth as you would your Mother
For like a Mother,truth will teach us
Facts can show us right from wrong
Never disrespect the truth,listen to its educative song
To me education comes from the people
Who have wisdom enough to see
That what was given freely to all brothers
Has the right to always remain free
Man has taken all thats beautiful,used progress as an excuse
For all the problems in our environment
A cover for Earth abuse
Everything is here for a reason
The Native Americans knew this well
Making good with what was handed
Before the white man's hammer fell
I am educated,I can say my piece in faith
That I know of the pain and all the suffering
Of a beautiful loving race
Some say they have been given everything
Money,freedom and land to plow
But if anyone has seen their land
You could never figure how
For the land they had was ripe,willing beneath their feet
Now all they have is barren ground
And the government thinks its sweet
Freedom has lost its meaning
To ones who so freely walked this earth
Now they live as prisoners
Judged and ordered before birth
They would not sarve or hurt through winter
If they could go back to older ways
Times when life was lived
Not like their existence here today
As for all the money,again the price is paid
Forced to lie in a bed,that the white man had made
Im not talking comfortable doonas and pillows
Im speaking of the life they now know
Given to them,premeditated methods
Such a cruel and vicious blow
This could go on forever
But I will hush while you try tell
That the peaceful Native Americans
Have done this to themselves
There were some things I already knew
And many I 'm now learning
But unless you are these beautiful people
You could never know their deepest yearning
Just to be who they really are
Not what society or the government choose
Do yourself a favour,get to know the truth
What more than time, do you have to lose