1492 - Scarlet's Remains

I see fountains of blood

Devastation birthed of greed

Billowing sails beget a cycle of genocide

The soil is cursed, the souls suffer plague

A grim reminder of an earlier age

At what price do we acquire?

At what price do we acquire?

I see bodies swinging in the wind

Faces bloated and bruised

Burning crosses brand terror into

The heart of a race, the soul of a nation

A grim attempt at annihilation

So in slavery did we acquire

Rotten!

Our souls are rotten at the core

We provoke ugliness to emerge from beauty

Everything that we touch becomes filthy

Soiled!

Soiled!

I see barbed wire encircling

The forms of a disenfranchised population

Who based on their country of origin

Are held captive as traitors

Are taught humiliation

So in internment did we trust no one

Rotten!

Our souls are rotten at the core

We provoke ugliness to emerge from beauty

Everything that we touch becomes filthy

Soiled!

Soiled!

I see the impoverished native on the concentration camp we call a reservation

I see the innocent Arab removed from his family on false accusations

I see the man on death row, framed for speaking out

I see the welfare mother plucked from her children to slave for minimum wage

I see the perpetuation of evil and nothing has changed

Nothing has changed!

Nothing has changed!