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Survival of the Fittest |
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There once was a beautiful nation of people... who lived their lives as part of the land... they only took what they could use... and carefully guarded nature's plan. The American Indian...as the visitors named him... respected and honored both nature and man... he lived as one with the deer in the forest... but the strangers never did understand. The visitors called him savage and wild... though he lived his life proud and strong... they wanted to make him...civilized... so they killed him and robbed him of his home. The early Indian may have been closer... to finding the balance of nature and man... than any people before or after... but the strangers never did understand. But the Indian accepted and helped the stranger... who came from afar in search of peace... but the visitor never accepted his host...his way of life...or his need to be free. And so because the Indian was different... they couldn't believe that he was as good... and so they tried to make him like them... but the Indian long had understood... survival of the fittest was nature's law... the Indian fought to keep his ways... but waves of strangers kept on coming... he and his people were here to stay. And for survival...the Indian stopped... fighting the war he couldn't win... he watched the stranger rape his land... kill the buffalo...and move again. And in frustration...he cried in pain... helpless to stop the abuse of his land... and his cries can still be heard today... because we still don't understand... that man must learn to respect the earth... if he wants his planet to remain alive... because as the Indian tried to tell us... only through nature...will we survive. copyright 1984 skybird publishing company james bruce joseph sievers |