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Friday, May 26, 2006 - 1:18 AM

To God, I hope you don't mind

but we would like to talk to you.

"Look at Us" By John trudell

I see your techno logical society devour you before your very eyes

I hear your anguished cries exalting greed through progress
while you seek material advances
the sound of flowers dying carry messages through the wind
trying to tell you about balance and your safety
But your minds are chained to your machines and
the strings dangling from your puppeteers hands turning you, t
wisting you into forms and confusions beyond your control
Your mind for a job your mind for a TV.
your mind for a hair dryer
your mind for consumption with your atom bombs
your material bombs your drug bombs your racial bombs
your class bombs your sexist bombs your ageist bombs

Devastating your natural shelters making you homeless on earth
chasing you into illusions fooling you,
making you pretend you can run away from the
ravishing of your spirit

While the sound of flowers dying carry messages through the wind
trying to tell you about balance and your safety.

Trying to isolate us in a dimension called loneliness
leading usinto the trap believe in their power but not in ourselves piling us
with guilt always taking the blame greed chasing out the balance
trying to isolate us in a dimension called loneliness economic
deities seizing power through illusions created armies are justified
class systems are democracy
god listens to warmongers prayers
tyranny is here divide and conquer
trying to isolate us in a dimension called loneliness
greed a parent insecurity the happiness companion
genocide conceived in sophistication techno logic material civilization
a rationalization replacing a way to live trying to isolate us
in a dimension called loneliness.


To God, I hope you don't mind but we would like to talk to you.
There are some things we need to straighten out. It's about these
Christians. They claim to be from your nation but man you should
see the things they do, all the time blaming it on you.
Raping the earth, Lying,
Taking more than they need in all the forms of the greed's.

They say it is God's will. I don't mean to be
disrespectful, but you know how it is,
my people have their own ways.
We never even heard of you until not long ago. Your
representative spoke magnificent things of you, which we were
willing to believe. But from the way they acted we know you
and we were being deceived.

It is time for you to decide what life is worth.
We already remember, but maybe you forgot.

Look at us, we are of Earth and Water
Look at them, it is the same Look at us, we are suffering all these years
Look at them, they are connected. Look at us, we are in pain
Look at them, surprised at our anger
Look at us, we are struggling to survive
Look at them, expecting sorrow be benign
Look at us, we were the ones called pagan
Look at them, on their arrival
Look at us, we are called subversive
Look at them, descending from name callers
Look at us, we wept sadly in the long dark
Look at them, hiding in tech no logic light
Look at us, we buried the generations
Look at them, inventing the body count
Look at us, we are older than America
Look at them, chasing a fountain of youth
Look at us, we are embracing Earth
Look at them, clutching today
Look at us, we are living in the generations
Look at them, existing in jobs and debts
Look at us, we have escaped many times
Look at them, they cannot remember
Look at us, we are healing
Look at them, their medicine is patented
Look at us, we are trying
Look at them, what are they doing
Look at us, we are children of Earth
Look at them, who are they?


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