Nonsense.
God is not (necessarily) on the side
of whoever wins;
that would justify wars,
“white-collar crimes” and insatiable sins.
Adventure and exploration are fine
but not the propaganda of draconian lies
or the satanic enterprise
of steal, kill and destroy
to “get what’s mine.”
Laisser-aller fed the hog of history,
the ideology used to justify
dispossession and genocide
known as “manifest destiny”—
seduction that grows
as it rises up your thigh
to titillate the taboos
of inbred prosperity.
Avarice wears many disguises,
and blood diamonds,
well, they come in all sizes.
The most savage creatures
wear the high cheek-boned physiognomy
of the red masks they scalped
like the blood-lust of the Ninevites.
Those who live for the glamor and spotlight
drink drops of disco
that rages into the night.
Forget your westward expansion;
leave a fossil footprint of what’s right.