Even then she was not virgin.
Even when the ships appeared like three ghosts and manifested themselves in splendid apparition,
Others had got to her first.
So if you are going to tell her history, tell it how it is:
In 1492, Spain expelled the Jew
In 1492, Indigenes caught the flu
In 1492, Columbus flew the coop
Led by the hand of God (so his diaries profess)
Back then the billboards were not up. She had not yet displayed her gaudy banner to the world:
"Give me your tired, your needy, I can take the best man and make him greedy."
She was content to stay furled.
But if you are going to tell her history, tell it how it is:
White man brought his white God
Caring only for the green sod
Masked intentions behind evangelical fraud
Divinely inspired to expand (so the books confess)
Even then she knew his fierceness was different.
She knew he would not just manifest his intentions and go away.
She felt the crucifying strike of the golden spike as he drove it into the beating heart
And with her passing away, he could now exploit from without as well as from within
So if you are going to tell the history: tell it how it was, is and always will be:
It has ever been about getting to her.
