This Is My Land

Call my name and pull at my cloth

Feel the thunder wave beneath your planted feet

This is my land and I will not surrender

This is my land and I will defend it

Listen to the running footsteps

See the horizon twist in a struggle with your smoke

My golden-blue eagle eyes will capture you

The open sky will fall upon your ancestors forever

My brothers from afar will come

From the heroic Hudson to the mighty Mississippi

This is my land and I will not surrender

This is my land and I will defend it

Roam elsewhere and first defeat your heart

Do not attempt to capture our spirits

For we are a people of our own

We are not your property nor earth

Take back your weapons and your whiteness

Go back to your land to your people

This is my land and I will not surrender

This is my land and I will defend it

The wide spanning golden-blue is coming

Shaded by the trees of the mother

Guided and guarded by the spirit

The Moon, The Stars, The Sun, and his lover’s heart

He will fly beyond sweet blooms

Find her among your chaotic seas

This is my land and I will not surrender

This is my land and I will defend it

With visions at night he dances

By sunrise he soars with honor

Through the great rains and above

He seeks the torso of defeat

In his dreams she stood

On this land of his she became

This is my land and I will not surrender

This is my land and I will defend it

White people go home

Bring your family and your beliefs

Take with you nothing you have not brought

End the draught of despair

This is my land and I will not surrender

This is my land and I will defend it

This is my land and I found her

This is my land and I love her

© 2004 David Greg Harth

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