reckoning

can mean a lot of different things
to a lot of different people
plant or animal

start at the beginning

with the original people
living on turtle island

one with the natural world

hands hard but free
until the guns and chains arrived

     if we cannot see this

     there is no purpose
     read no further

the original people

on this original land
were left with:  

flee     fight     reservation     assimilation

and then die

     in this
the original sin

so the malls and freeways followed

the corrupt money
from a world of dirty suits and charlatans

this gets you close to the real

real as the moon
bringing in the tide

where every border falls

on its own weight of deceit
     a natural balancing

walk back to the primal forest

away from the chaos
where all else is secondary

where reckoning might begin

--- e b bortz