by Matthew J. Lawler \/ January 8th, 2017<\/p>\n
I stand with Standing Rock,
Amidst an avalanche of onslaught,
Look what corporate greed brought
to the table,
A palpitating pipe-line,
A time bomb
seeping poison like parasites in rivers,
Irreverence at the sight of the life giver.
The arrogance of men is plenty,
Uniforms empty with machinery.
Broken Treaties spur resistance.
I stand with the water protectors,
I stand with them at Standing Rock,
Raising my voice, my will,
For the love of the river
And the love of the hills.<\/p>\n
Respect the Land,
Respect the Treaties,
Respect the Native\u2019s Wishes.<\/p>\n
I stand with Standing Rock,
Amidst streams of rubber bullets
bulging with blood,
As fiends for cash hound the land
puncturing holes in holy ground,
A lonely sound gathers
like the footsteps of a beast,
I fight in unity for love of land
with heart upright I long for peace
like the Lakota,
The natives, stripped of dignity,
Furthermore deserted
For the sake of a profit.<\/p>\n
The black snake moans in
burial sites of the sacred,
I sense the ancestors of the Lakota
rising like waters to swallow
the money mongers,
For they are nothing more than
A den of robbers in a temple.<\/p>\n
Respect the Land,
Respect the Treaties,
Respect the Native\u2019s Wishes.<\/p>\n
I stand in opposition to militarized greed
that seeks to topple sacred land,
I take a stand with the voices of a rock,
Connected to the sacred soil,
Therefore desecration is not permissible,
Nor is a pipeline of poison
that makes water undrinkable,
I stand with Standing Rock
with the people who…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n