Spiritual Rape Poem by Eric Cockrell
Spiritual Rape
cultural genocide....
white people, white God,
stripping Native Americans
of the basic rights to be....
who they were, who they are!
with violent force stripping
culture, language, faith, and
way of life.... baptizing,
into colorless sameness....
call it being civilized!
call it salvation!
call it progress! ....
call it spiritual rape!
I also mourn the continuing spiritual rape of Native Americans. What can be said except to honour their heritage, their nobility of spirit. Dog Soldier Lodge Affirmed We believed in love, freedom, nobility; to spiritual depths of our souls. We believed in spiritual sacredness; of our vibrant untamed land. We rode our mustangs like wind tossed rolling thunder; drumming across within prairie storm front; as we rode wild free ranging prairie wind; sweeping across an untamed unshod land. We were so proud to live; as robust hunter-warriors; to walk stand tall; sharing tribal life spirit.....
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4/26/2024 5:29:32 PM # 1.0.0.1119
Masterpiece! I think you deserve a prize award for your humanitarean poems, sir. Brilliant with truth.