Who’s Land?

Looking across the vast land

I could see herds of buffalo

Stampeding across the plain

Followed by proud Indian warriors

Masters in their own domain.

Then, I blink.

What I thought were buffalo

Were actually thousands of bushes

And not an Indian in sight.

Ah yes, how could I forget

They were eradicated from their land

By a disease from the east,

The disease of expansion,

The disease of the white man?

18^th September 2001, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America.