Migration

Instinctive pull
 Call for expansion
 Impulse to seek prosperity
 Flee consternation
 East over shoulder
 The lantern telling lies
 Expiring slowly
 Kerosene dries
 Fear washes over
 Mud-caked teeth grind
 A smirking, wind-burned face cracks frown lines
 Chased by the fury of the dust cloud
 Spurs dive, hooves fly
 "Lex Sempronia Agraria
 We migrate to find it."
 Expansion manifesting
 Claiming their destiny
 Forge a shining city on the hill
 Taming the American west
 Thundering cacophony
 Bleeding trails off the map
 Worn heels of Burden Iron beat roads through granite
 With clay under the nail
 Outstretched fingers point the way
 When the earth drinks the sky
 Age of fortune is nigh
 Blighted by sun and choking dust
 Rope splinters line wearied hands
 The miles separate wood from lashing
 As blisters are rubbed to scars
 The more the wind blows, the harder they push
 Crack the whip 'til the blue meets the blue
 Strong spines of equine will paint the way
 As the call of virtue is answered with a roar
 The famished caravan
 An opportunist meal
 Lost half my family attempting to preserve their future
 Over the next crest
 We'll smell salt in the air
 Succulent wasteland becomes deciduous
 Green and gold
 The fertile soil and sunshine
 With God as my witness I claim this as mine
 Green and gold
 The untouched valley beckons
 By the backs of forefathers I claim this as mine
 Migrant fighting for his life
 Revels in the failing light
 Migrant fighting for his life
 The wild herd is losing sight
 Migrant fighting for his life
 Wallows in implicit strife
 Migrant fighting for his life
 Seductive unknown
 The mission embellished
 Charged "from above"
 The promise of virtue
 Contrived imperialist lie
 The frontier arrogated
 Acquisition the final design
 The valor confabulated
 Irreproachable pioneers
 "Lex Sempronia Agraria
 We migrate to find it."
 Bloodshot eyes stare
 A thousand miles past sunset
 Horns locked with nature, dueling
 A conquest of reciprocation
 Expansion manifesting
 Claiming their destiny
 Migration