It began with a whiff from a distant land,
A vast ocean lay between,
And to conquer it a fool's errand,
It did not deter them explorers,
The braved the oceans with nothing as
much as a compass,
And they came to a brave new world,
and discovered people who did not look like,
their unassuming ways dismissed as primitive
And they killed thousands,
They occupied lands never theirs - they did not even
want to share - the darn ungrateful sojourners
And then came a new language,
A new religion,
And concepts such as democracy introduced
to a people did not need it,
And they called those who wanted their land back barbarians
The white barbarians stayed and made foreign lands their homes
And the repercussions are still felt today, Centuries after
