A Tribute Written to Montezuma by Poet Manny Monolin Moreno from His Book - The Bridge is Gone

 

Montezuma II was a good leader before the Spanish arrived
https://www.thoughtco.com/emperor-montezuma-before-the-spanish-2136261

Montezuma

Your bronze eyes

sparkle in sunlight

from deep dark pockets

hewn on your furrowed

indigenous face,

your hands tremble

rough as rawhide

grafted on a chair

and you sit as you do

mumbling as if

conversing with spirits,

years ago

strong as a bull

you labored in the fields

proud to show the boss

you were equal to or better than

any machine,

now your strength is sapped

like water squeezed from a sponge

and the only thing left for you to do

is converse your way through.

~~~

--From The Bridge is Gone

Manny Monolin Moreno

Note: The music was so intriguing that it seemed appropriate to continue sharing the various videos created from just one haunting melody featuring history and nature... in Tribute to Montezuma... 

Manny Monolyn Moreno is an ongoing contributor at Book Readers Heaven... He has Just been named a recipient from HeARTLand for his next book, Santa Nella Blues: Poems