The Proud Taino "WARRIOR MAN"
Excerpted from: "The Book of 8 Million Tears"
By: Chief Peter Guanikeyu Torres
LOOK in the TUREY?
UP In the blue sky!
Its a SCREAMING Eagle!
Its a Red Tailed Guaraguao !
Its a Jet plain with TALONS !
No its a PROUD WARRIOR Man!
8 MILLION DID NOT SURVIVE !
A PROUD TAINO WARRIOR MAN !
With SAD memories of his people
Deep within his sorrowed mind!
His Taino thoughts echoed loudly!
My people were here long before
The others set their sails to the
Wind!
8 MILLION DID NOT SURVIVE!
MEMORIES of Our Sacred Cacique
OROCOBIX
With a tear drop in his
Left Eye!
Would have even made
Humble Chief Joseph cry !
8 MILLION DID NOT SURVIVE!
MEMORIES of SPANISH bloody
WHIPS upon our BLEEDING BACKS !
Iron Chains upon our bleeding Legs!
Woe for those WHO withstood the
500 years of brainWASHING of the
Foul SPANISH GUAMIKENA Man !
8 MILLION DID NOT SURVIVE!
Hey Taino boy!
You are extinct!
Hmmm ! says Proud Taino Warrior.
Just another little White GUAMIKENA Lie!
Hey GUAMIKENA Spanish Man!
We are still here, so open your EYES !
We TAINO WARRIORS are very much alive !
8 MILLION DID NOT SURVIVE!
You RAPED our Grandmothers !
You MURDERED our Children !
You KILLED our Sacred Elders !
You REMOVED us from reality !
You FALSELY made us EXTINCT !
You TRIED in vain to WIPE us out !
You RAPED our brown Daughters !
Yet WE as a PEOPLE did SURVIVE !
8 MILLION DID NOT SURVIVE!
NOW Open your MABOYA Eyes!
LOOK In the Turey the blue Sky!
Its a TAINO JIBARO WARRIOR,
With a MACHETE in his hand !
For 500 years as we stood by
Forced to hear your DAMN lies!
Now WE are coming to get you !
We are the Children who cry!
8 MILLION DID NOT SURVIVE!
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"One day, when I finally ride the wonderful canoe through the turey
(sky) to far away Coabey and I am dead, hang my bones high in a sacred
calabash like that of Yayael and spread my ashes in the Sacred Circle
of truth at Caguanas.
Always know that I will dwell in this sacred place with my great-grandfather,
Orocobix, to counsel you. In times of sorrow and despair, call to my
Toa-Toa. I will surely hear you in Coabey"
I dedicate this page to my true and good friend
Chief Peter Guanikeyu Torres
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