Barbarians in White

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