A Lot Of People Want To Say

A Lot Of People Want To Say

A lot of people want to say

Columbus wasn’t a nice guy

But even so he found a way

To cross a mighty ocean by,

And it was a stupendous feat,

For him to end up on a shore

The way he did it to complete 

What nobody did heretofore.

Because he’d had his vision that

A voyage being made around

A globe led west where he’d be at

That destination to be found.

They’d say it was by accident

He found it, being unaware,

As if his voyage nothing meant

(“America’s already there”)!

Such people are so blinded by

Resentment so as to describe

Achievement by a jaundiced eye—

(Columbus isn’t of their tribe)

He doesn’t fit their paradigm;

He didn’t have it all in mind;

He wasn’t of some other time;

They see Columbus from behind,

And talk as if he should’ve known

America was there instead

Of seeing what was to be shown:

The mariner was really led

By Providence to find the place

Where he suspected it to be

As by his voyage he’d embrace

The world of his discovery.