They and We

They came.

And conquered.

Capturing our land

and sending us off

to far away places,

where the soil is barren

and basic necessities 

are gone.

They claim the land is theirs,

that they had discovered it.

They pretend we had never existed.

They take our children

and make them renounce their beliefs

and dreams.

They beat them,

hurt them

physically

and emotionally.

They tell us that everything they do is right.

That white skin is perfect

and any other colour

is dirty.

If any of us try to fight back,

we are destroyed,

diminished.

They commit genocide without

spilling a drop of blood.

They tell us we are wrong.

But we are not the ones

brainwashing children

or stealing things.

We don't kill people who

go against us,

who don't believe in what we believe.

We are not the evil ones.

We are not the cruel ones. 

We are not the ones that

conquer lands

and destroy people and homes.

Look inside and see

who we truly are.

This is pretty much a generalization of what happened in North America, South America and Australia when white people came and took over.