Buying Time

With the money they made by stealing our land
They have bought themselves some time—
Air time
Water time
War time
And underground time.
By that they believe that they have bought history.

But when I look back, past the hundred of years
Of history they claim to own,
Through our own thousands of years,

And when I think of the million of red flowers
That opened each Spring of those thousands of years
No matter how white the winters,

I see hours like stars in the eyes of our children.

—Jimmie Durham