Dispossession Poem by Francis Duggan

Most great cities are built on the Lands of the Indigenous the sinned against and the oppressed
And the truth to us though it may seem bitter is that we live on the Lands of the dispossessed
And the same has happened all around the World in human history dispossession is rife
By so called great warriors many great races have been rendered extinct aggression is part of human life.

The conquerors are always the invaders and though the changes keep happening fast
Those who choose to write our human history should not deny the wrongs of our ancestral past
And though the past it may be beyond changing the children of the future ought to know
That we live on the Lands of people dispossessed by our ancestors centuries ago.

Dispossession in the World is widespread it is even happening today
In some instances it seems more subtle bankers do it in a sneakier way
The family have run into hard times their house mortgage they cannot pay
And to sell their home the banks get the sherriff to evict them who could look on this as fair play.

On the Lands of the dispossessed we live on though the past it has forever gone
That part of our history we ignore our motto is life must go on
But the true history should be taught to the children at least to them that much we owe
That our ancestors were dispossessors though that happened ages ago.