By Travid Halton
Sun was shining
The rain was coming down
Coyotes were getting married
While the white man raped the ground
They frolicked through his field
Chasing chickens in the hunt
A flesh feast for their wedding day
Blood stained in their love
He caught them in the grove
Lying naked in the shade
They snarled at his pointed gun
And they tried to run away
He shot her in the chest
And put a bullet in his head
And left them by the sweetgum tree
“What’s mine is mine.” he said
Man built an aircraft
That he could never fly
He pushed it off a mountain
And soon someday he’ll die
He slashed and burned the forest
When he picked up the plough
He forgot where he came from
But he remembers now
There in the grove
Where the sleeping lovers lay
A hawk flew down to bless their bones
Before they bled away
She flew back to the field
Where the strangler choked the air
With poison for the thieves who would feed
Upon the boon his crops would bear
She perched upon a bough
And let out a solemn call
She told him of his wrongful ways
And warned him of his fall
“I don’t give a damn.,” he said
“This land belongs to me.”
His teeth dug deep in the forbidden fruit
From the consecrated tree
Man built an aircraft
That he could never fly
He pushed it off a mountain
And soon someday he’ll die
He slashed and burned the forest
When he picked up the plough
He forgot where he came from
But he remembers now
Down by the creek
Where the gentle water flows
Swallowing the scourge that seeps
Through the soil deep below
The taker knelt beside the stream
To wash his savior’s band
When a snake slithered softly toward his feet
And struck his sinful hand
Startled he stood
And stumbled back before he fell
Into the creek; he hit his head
And went to sleep under the spell
There on the bank
Near their bones beside the tree
Was glistening under the sun
The cross that set them free
Man built an aircraft
That he could never fly
He pushed it off a mountain
And soon someday he’ll die
He slashed and burned the forest
When he picked up the plough
He forgot where he came from
But he remembers now
