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 | Pele | Oct 16, '06 12:46 AM
for everyone |
 fleeing that white bitch goddess Europa* you sought santuary and redemption amidst my fragrant lush shores I, Pele* offered rebirth
I, Pele
offered a parasidical home
but liars and thieves
never change
generations of stealing
had been branded in your genes
secreted
in your mother's milk
lessons learned
at your father's knees
indocrinated as sacred truth
in your holy buildings
thus
blinded by hubris
and bigotry
you continued to engage in your gentile depradations
while professing
to civilize the savages
with your coin
you brought death and slavery confusing love with whoredom offering syphillic seductions your greed marked with avarice
your sailors, an ignorant smelly horde
consumed with rapine and alcohol
as your viewed and ravaged
the wealth of these islands
the theft santified
by your christian god
and that white bitch,
Europa
in the end my home, my land, my people rich prizes beyond measure were sacrificed on the altar of your superior western
sensibilities
my daughter Liliuokalani*
dethroned
another people
marginalized
we never sought to be
another
white man's burden*
Notes:
1. Europa - Europa was one of the god Zeus's many love interests in Greek mythology
2. Pele - Described as "She-Who-Shapes-The-Sacred-Land" in ancient Hawaiian chants, the volcano goddess, Pele, was passionate, volatile, and capricious. In modern times, Pele has become the most visible of all the old gods and goddesses. Dwelling in the craters of the Big Island's Kilauea Volcano, she has been sending ribbons of fiery lava down the mountainside and adding new land around the southeastern shore almost continuously since 1983.
3. Liliuokalani- the United States-backed overthrow of Hawaii's last monarch, Queen Liliuokalani, an event lamented as a dark page in American history.
4. White man's burden - In February 1899, British novelist and poet Rudyard Kipling wrote a poem entitled âÂÂThe White ManâÂÂs Burden: The United States and The Philippine Islands.â In this poem, Kipling urged the U.S. to take up the âÂÂburdenâ of empire, as had Britain and other European nations. The racialized notion of the âÂÂWhite ManâÂÂs burdenâ became a euphemism for imperialism, and many anti-imperialists couched their opposition in reaction to the phrase.
by butterflynxile
(c) 2006
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