The Roar Of The Torrent Poem by Phillip Nine Mafunga

There is a people whose history is unknown
Not because they do not have any history
The First Nation of the sub-continent remained mum about who they were
Their land had be invaded by a strange peoples
Why would they trust the stranger with their name, history, and culture?

Huddled in inhospitable habitats while strangers loot the land
Greed invading the land to strip it bare and bland
Nature is weeping and people do not understand
The herbs for healing of the nations, stronger to stand
The fire of avarice has consumed the land on a scale so grand

Who will ever remember the faceless natives of the land?
Their footprints are there for all to see on the sand dunes of time
The caves made they their dwellings in friendship with nature
The open skies were their universities of natural learning
There is a people whose history is unknown only by us the smart fools

Phillip Nine Mafunga
3 November 2019