My Tongva Home
MY TONGVA HOME
By Christopher Nyerges
[written 011910 for the Franklin High School Mural Project presentation]
It’s winter solstice in the Valley of Smokes
I’m thinking about things under the oaks
It’s that dark time of year
When we reflect on what we’ve done
But nowadays a parade comes through
Marching bands, modern people having fun
My tribal land – now called Pasa-Adena
Is paved and housed and no more wild
Every New Year you see crowded masses
Waiting for parade with screaming child
I deep desire my tribal home
To gather acorns, dig roots in loam
To gather asphaltum where the ocean does foam
Where the deer and cougar are free to roam
I’m lost in this urban crazy sprawl
Used to have sweats, now massive mall
I strive to stand on sacred rocky spall
Call my family to ceremony, to come and stand tall
But the land is all lost, no longer my home
My heart wants to find my Tongva home
Seems I’ve been seeking it all my life long
But my mind is mixed up, and I can’t hear the song
I dream at night of my ancestral spot
To swim in the stream when the day is hot
To learn the things that my elders have taught
To be with my family, I’d like it a lot
But my Tongva land is all devoured
In my sacred land is now skyscraper tower
No traditional food, my stomach has soured
Too many elders from invaders have cowered.
It’s time to re-find my Tongva roots
It’s time to take off my restrictive boots
Its time to get out of my tie and suits
It’s time to get back to eating fish and roots
This Tongva homeland is here, now at last
I can mind-see it, as I look into past
I want to dwell in Tongva land at long last
My spirit soars when I look forward to the past
My home is heaven, but my body’s on earth
This Pasa-Adena land where I was given birth
I can’t wait to get back to my real home
I’m so tired of my civilization roam
I long to live in the sweet black loam
I’m going back to my Tongva home.
Source: http://christophernyerges.blogspot.com/2019/09/my-tongva-home.html
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