Look at Us

Look at us We are of earth and water Look at them It is the same Look at us We are suffering all these years Look at them They are connected Look at us We are in pain Look at them Surprised at our anger Look at us We are struggling to survive Look at them Expecting sorrow be benign Look at us We are the ones called pagan Look at them On their arrival Look at us We are called subversive Look at them Descending from name callers Look at us We wept sadly in the long dark Look at them Hiding in technologic light Look at us We buried the generations Look at them Inventing the body count Look at us We are older than America Look at them Chasing a fountain of youth Look at us we are embracing earth Look at them Clutching today Look at us We are living in the generations Look at them Existing in jobs and debt Look at us We have escaped many times Look at them They cannot remember Look at us We are healing Look at them Their medicine is patented Look at us We are trying Look at them What are they doing Look at us We are children of earth Look at them Who are they