What have they to show the Navajo
\nAmerica that’s America is deranged
\nTo think she can just take away
\nTheir rivers that have now been changed
\nCadmium and Arsenic Mercury and lead
\nSwept down from the mountain
\nTragic was what she said<\/p>\n
THe EPA director
\nAs the river has turned to
\nA brilliant chemical yellow
\nNothing to misconstrue
\nThe nation of the Navajo
\nIncensed already by
\nThe black snake threatening tribal lands
\nUp into the sky
\nThe Dakota oil pipe frenzyThe Missouri River where
\nThe mighty Sioux and 190 other tribes now share<\/p>\n
The love and expectation
\nEach nation bothering to
\nStand together
\nFight together and not allow them through
\nThe untimeliness of the corporate
\nThe intrusion on their scene
\nThe thoughts of the people down river
\nThere really has never been<\/p>\n
A coming together of hearts and minds
\nThe rhythm of life and time
\nThe land the precious land where they all stand
\nSuch sweat and grime
\nBlood and snot and and drum beats
\nThe permanence of now
\nThe endurance of the mighty
\nWho show each other how<\/p>\n
Water all pulsating provider of the health
\nOf every single organism representing wealth
\nTo ordinary people to everyone alive
\nWho loves the land they walk on
\nAnd so wants to survive
\nCrude oil thick ugly stinking ooze
\nObliterating all
\nTheir preciousness and constancy
\nEach flag answers the call<\/p>\n
Their unwavering commitment
\nIt be a momentous act
\nA coming together of hearts and minds
\nHow the ancestors react
\nThe spirits of each nation
\nAre immutable and strong
\nThis is their time this is their place
\nThis is where they belong<\/p>\n
This pipe line is hanging over
\nThe combined destinies
\nEvery soul is aching
\nAnd is feeling the great breeze
\nThreatening their existence
\nThe darkly shadow comes
\nWrithing in its man made coil
\nDriven by their drums<\/p>\n
The cause is set to energy
\nThe corporate gloop of night
\nYou can’t drink oil
\nDespite our toil
\nThis pipeline isn’t right
\nThere will be leaks there will be breaks
\nAnd who picks up the blame
\nWho suffers more because of them
\nThe great eternal flame<\/p>\n
That burns up in the heavens
\nThe probability
\nIt is an awful hazard
\nAnd could be the tragedy
\nOf tragedies forever
\nThe decision to go ahead
\nThe army Corp of engineers
\nHad put it all to bed<\/p>\n
But they overlooked the people
\nThe resistance so to say
\nThe blood and guts of history
\nThe dark along the way
\nThe impotence of their moment
\nSuch a forcible display
\nA coming together of all the tribes
\nHopeful to save the day<\/p>\n
Their vitality and spirit
\nA strength beyond the sky
\nThe fire of life is with them
\nNo one wants to die
\nTo overlook the mother
\nTo walk away and sigh
\nForgetting all the hardship
\nThat went on by and by<\/p>\n
Being entirely arrogant
\nAnd ignorant as well
\nBeing high and mighty
\nBringing down a hell
\nWhere paradise was fashioned
\nAll those years before
\nThis is sacred Indian Land
\nAnd really to ignore<\/p>\n
The spirit and the wanting
\nIs a perilous display
\nAnd introducing violence
\nTo peace activists I say
\nThe corporate doesn’t realise
\nThe enlivening desire
\nTo walk together over this
\nAnd share the eternal fire<\/p>\n
Storm troopers and robotic guards
\nThe brainwashed clad in steel
\nThe violent hand is raised to them
\nThe severity feels real
\nThe hell hound in the belfry
\nThe retroaction here
\nFighting the First Nations
\nIt really is unclear<\/p>\n
Great distances they have travelled
\nAnd a great camp has evolved
\nHarmonious and rhythmical
\nTogether they have solved
\nWhat they see as disproportionate
\nRickety and wrong
\nThe risks to them are very high
\nThe pipeline doesn’t belong<\/p>\n
The earth is alive and moving
\nIt’s prominence is sure
\nEach cave each grave
\nThose artefacts
\nThe rule of less is more
\nThe inadequacy of Science
\nA leap into the dark
\nAll the physical features
\nLike an artery will mark<\/p>\n
A way towards a vanishment
\nCovered over lost
\nOut of sight sequestered
\nAnd what would be the cost
\nFor those who foresaw the outcome
\nWith a diligence and need
\nWith the watchfulness of the wise ones
\nWitH a conscience to succeed<\/p>\n
KEYSTONE XL PIPELINE
\nNOrth Dakota to Illinois
\n1168 miles
\nENergy transfer Partners of Dallas<\/p>\n
Greetings to the Standing rock Sioux and Lakota Sioux
\nAnd all the tribes coming together
\nAnd to the Navajo with their fight against the spillage
\nInto their two rivers <\/p>\n
We are all indigenous of somewhere so we are all sisters and brothers
\nAnd must stand together be together stay together x<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
What have they to show the Navajo America that’s America is deranged To think she can just take away Their rivers that have now been changed Cadmium and Arsenic Mercury and lead Swept down from the mountain Tragic was what … Continue reading