Those who Dreamed Spirit winds....
   play the melody
      as drums beat the rhythm
         of silenced heartbeats....

Sand Creek...
   Wounded Knee....
     Faceless silent dead

Whose screams are never heard.....

Another time..another place....
  that never comes...never leaves...
     always there...

Which hearts can hear this?

It does not take a designated blood quorum....

Does anyone care?
   Or does the daily existance
     of this life silence the heart
       to sob anymore?
Who cares that a woman's breasts were cut off
    and worn as a ornament to decorate a soldier's hat?
       Does anyone cry over the death of that breastless dreamer?

We have told the stories....
   Shared our fires...
     Given warnings....

And in the silence of the mountains
   I hear the whispers of the winds...
     who say....It shall be played again....

No one knows how to light the fires anymore...to warm the spirits...


I stand...against the winds...and
   touch the heart of Grandfather Sky
     who weeps
and bow my head as I see that flag of protection

fluttering...in the winds
   as they stood....slaughtered as the buffalo.....
      dying..still believing....

But no one hears their songs anymore....
  and I wish....
Someone knew how to light the fires
   for it is so very cold...without protection from the winds.....