The Pale Faced Devils.

The first ships docked and the alien-like beings walked ashore

They looked like us, but vaguely dissimilar...paler..."Pale faces".

Did they worship different gods...were they molded from a whiter clay

Are they here to nurture or change our nature**should we trust them

I sniff the air...for the scented breeze will answer all of my questions

Alas!

They bring with them an ill wind which blows no good

A portent premonition. A distinct augury of foreboding. A damnable prophesy of doom.

They come***The Pale Devils

Their ships huge, gargantuan in comparison to our humble crafts

Their dress extravagant and pretentious...their manner bold and wicked

Their intentions...Death and destruction...Theft and eradication

They come**Hell bent upon taking everything that belongs not to them

Their eyes blind to human kindness, decency and humility...

They were long rendered dead inside by greed and evil---uncaring

Thinking themselves gods...free to believe in their superiority

Thinking it ok to wield injustice upon others with cruelty and disdain

Believing that "Like flies to wanton boys are we to the gods. They kill us for their sport"...

And, that godliness Actually applied to them in equal measure

Were they too stupid to actually eke out, make a life for themselves

Could they not have clawed out their own niche

The way the intelligence of the Native People compelled them to do

Could they not have communed with the land and sky...asked for guidance to live in harmony with nature, the beasts of land and sky and everything in-between...

Demanding from the earth only that which was desired to sustain and strengthen their minds and bodies

Could they not have traded fairly with the inhabitants of the wide world, which was given freely to each and every soul

Did they mistake free will for 'free vengeance' heaped upon the heads of those not baptized in fire...inured to human decency and mercy

Could they not have conjured, imagined, induced and entreated from their own gods the wisdom to open their evil hearts to the sacredness of other people's lifestyle and beliefs

Why did they not crawl on hands and knees to plant the earth with seed and grains, watch as they grow and yield life sustaining bounty from the sweat of their own brows

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They came with the demons of hell upon their backs...inhabited a place where angels dwelled. They burned it to the ground.

Even in Heaven there was war. Still some survived, so will we upon this earth, to fight on until the battle shall be won.

We shall always rebuild from the ashes.

The anger and injustice will never be forgotten. It will be filed away under..."To be visited when necessary for the remembrance of our brothers and sisters, lost but not forgotten"!

I remember...I hear their happy laughter upon the winds, the way they laughed before...before you came. They had been content to be one with the universe and it one with them.

Worry not, they say to me again.

WE BLED SO THAT YOU CAN LIVE!