"Sacred Tree"

The Olde Men Say the Earth Only Endures.

You Spoke Truly.

You Spoke Right.

                                                         ~Native American 

I

  did Not Know then

 How Much was Ended.

When I Look back now From this High Hill of my Olde Age,

I can still See the Butchered Women and Children

Lying Heaped and Scattered

all  Along the Crooked Gulch

as plain as When my Eyes Saw Them with Eyes still Young.

And I can See that Something  Else

Died  there  in the Bloody Mud,

and was Buried there in the Blizzard.

A  People's  D ream  Died  There.

It  was  a  Beautiful  Dream...

the  Nation's  Hoop  is Broken  and  Scattered.

There is No Center any Longer,

and 

the  Sacred  Tree

 is  Dead.

~Black Elk 

~Beannaichte'

24 February, 2013 

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