America’s first people a lost people still

Open eyes see many things
but closed minds cannot not feel
the first people they were always there
now what does that reveal
a tumultuous uprising
and a fearful sordid end
19 million people
with little to defend
the guardians represented
the indigenous were there
they were the chosen people
who were made to face despair
closed eyes and heads that look the other way
as women fell
open minds were able
a subjugation spell
and then extermination
tragically we see
a colossal abomination
a lost people, they be