Do you think it was legend to mark posterity
when you thought native blood was mere cheap
liquid, not even red as the Ameri-Indian skin
And your pale-face was a perfection in Christ
in your missionary zeal of Franciscan fraternalism;
by the spikes on your shirt to cut you, to bleed
you just like the self-flagellation that you undertook.
That you thought it was ethical to return your
own evil masochism to the masses with intense cruelty to them!
That you should think all your dogma must put
an end to native Pagan cults, that their ritualistic lives
in nature were far too wickedly inferior to your
chauvinistic truths, so that there was no blood
on your hands even in the reprehensible torture,
burning at the stake and conversion by the sword and gun!
And talk of the great good to the cause of Christendom
your murderous Dominican Inquisitions did to the Iberian
colonies – West and East. All your priests so hastily
beatified by the Church, like saints who knew no worth
in the native’s soul and blood, were he to be as good
as poisoned by the Crucifix for posterity, if he were to
disavow and disengage from his ancestral faith; so that
he be orphaned from his soulful forefathers for eternity;
and be blessed with the self-glorification (and his own
proclaimed inferiority) by the Church, until his soul was
saved by the Sword, not Word, of Christ!
