White Knights

Battle 

upon battle

uni-formed warriors, 

heroes violently “liberating” 

distant others

With horse-power,

wind, or water 

they approach

growling, Hands up! 

Victoriously 

breathing fire

like dragons 

they (un)knowingly 

become...

Smoke signals

imaginary adversaries,

windmills waving surrender...

quest after quest

coloring perspectives

Native hues lost 

in the shadow of

(honorable) intent...

concluding

“the good guys

always win.”

——

* Reflections on war/global colonialism 

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*Windmill references the literary tale of Don Quixote de La Mancha, a Spanish novel written in the 1600s, in which the main character believes he is living a knightly story, on a “Noble Quest,” but it was all in his deluded mind (he saw windmills as dragons needing slaying.) Many lessons within.