The World Biggest Lies!

Columbus left the shores of the country of Spain,
Exploring regions unknown and knowledge to be gained,
to learn of people of these new worlds,
To harvest gold and silver and the rarest of pearls,
For his King and Queen of Imperial Spain,
Whose colonial ambitions of enrichment were vain,
And what proceeded changed a people forever,
By a so called discoverer that thought he was so clever.

Columbus began to record his deeds,
His voyages, adventures and the Kings solemn creed,
These people that you find must be christianized!
But he was least interested in their faith as they died.
He did not write or acknowledge the fact,
That explorers went before him to these worlds that were black,
In these new worlds the indians spoke of black men,
And traded with them cloth made of Kente and cotton.

Also, gold was traded too,
So Columbus did not tell his King all that he knew,
for more than two hundred years before,
Two thousand ships left Africas shores,
And saw this new world with indian kings,
And taught them to build pyramids so astonishing.
Now revealed, centuries of one sided lies told
In writings published under European control.

These African Kings and tradesmen,
Visited the Mayans and Incas then,
And told of their visits with the Aztecs too,
Yet many years we're misled and without a clue,
That our African ancestors came to these shores,
And traded with Indians long, long before,
Columbus was born in his Genoese town,
Now saying "he's discovered", is deserving of a clown.

He landed in Jamaica in 1492,
In a strange society he did not knew,
These Arawak people were so peaceful that he saw,
Not suspecting that Columbus was a thiefing outlaw.
He enslaved these people and thrashed them for gold,
And his men then raped them historians have told.
Spreading disceases to inhabitants enslaved,
Very few escaped to the mountains and caves.

This is a true lesson to teach our kids,
Columbus is no discoverer, by a spoon or a bib!
What he saw was visited by Africans before,
Archeological findings have made this sure.
Africans have taught the Incas their style,
Of beautiful writings and drawings with files,
They taught them the science of building their tombs,
And their mighty pyramids as eternal homes.



So in the books of history many have been tricked,
And we must dismantle brick by brick,
That no one will believe that backward tale,
And let the truth be known, that we can't afford to fail.

The Poemeater 2010.