They say the herds would run for days, <br />From early morn, to setting sun. <br />With smaller herds following, made out of strays, <br />Sometimes a week, before the passing was done. <br /> <br />Magnificent and proud, they roamed the plains, <br />With no enemies to ever fear. <br />Following the grasses, brought by the rains, <br />The native Americans held them dear. <br /> <br />The Indians took only enough to live, <br />And used everything, down to the horns and hides. <br />And when taking lives, thanks they would give, <br />To their Great Spirit, up in the skies. <br /> <br />Then the great white hunters came along, <br />Sitting on platforms on the trains. <br />Killing indiscriminately, it was so wrong, <br />Leaving on the prairies, their terrible stains. <br /> <br />With their Sharps Carbines, from near or far, <br />They systematically destroyed a way of life. <br />And left on this nation a terrible scar, <br />Worst than any made by the dullest knife. <br /> <br />The great white hunters would sit in their chairs, <br />Killing wantonly from dawn till dusk. <br />Never mindful with no sorrow or cares, <br />To satisfy their blood thirsty lust. <br /> <br />Raping the land, they destroyed the plains, <br />And the way the Plains Tribes lived. <br />Leaving dead carcasses and bloody stains, <br />And an entire race of people left to grieve. <br /> <br />Miles of carcasses rotting in the sun, <br />While the Redman cried sad and forlorn. <br />A product of the hunters Sharps buffalo guns, <br />That left the prairie ravaged and torn. <br /> <br />No greater injustice, no greater sin, <br />No greater waste of Gods green Earth. <br />The buffalo guns thundering their din, <br />To the Great White hunters it was cause for mirth. <br /> <br />If your'e ignorant of history, you'll repeat the past, <br />And so many wrongs would rise again. <br />Only when man has no system of caste, <br />Will we live without self inflicted pain. <br /> <br />1/28/11 Alton Texas<br /><br />Juan Olivarez<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/great-white-hunters/
