The Arawaks 

     Amusia lit the candles in her van and filled her journal with the days madness.

Pondered partnerships from which she’d run and wrote a piece about a love which went….

 

Don’t not yet, I placed my fingers to your lips, Be here with me I’d said now it’s all that I regret.

Dining upon one another flesh, moving the tides chest to chest.

Don’t not yet, I placed my fingers to your lips. Be here with me I’d said now it’s all that I regret.

 

Planned to escape Columbus’s clan, Those greedy empty men can have these Islands.

A girl did flee, so young and pretty did come, With a warning we could not ignore, Her

old tribe gone, murdered or forced to mine, a madman did demand that they bring him

gold. So while elders thought of plans I fell in love.

 

We prepared the Cassava, To carry us above our bodies. Our spirits would merge behind the

moon. Lay beside me love I pleaded.Let the wind sing of passion howling holy.

“Consume it with me now” she demanded and I refused. I drew her near, we fell asleep.

Soldiers kicked hot ash into our sleeping faces. They tore my love from my tortured arms,

and banished me to their mines.

 

Don’t not yet, I placed my fingers to your lips, Be here with me I’d said now it’s all that I regret.

Finding myself in this mine collapse suffocating, Hoping my love is suffering less.

Don’t not yet, I placed my fingers to your lips, Be here with me I’d said now it’s all that I regret.