Haiku #89 - For Columbus Day
Written on 1:58 PM by Jack B.
Columbus landed
Claimed for Spain a brave new world
Others came before
Yet he's remembered
Age of Discovery starts
Race for gold and land
Colonization
Genocide, missionaries
Sacrifice and faith
Columbus brought all
No plaster saint, nor villain
Just a man of faults
Let us remember
The man himself, not the deeds
That came later on