The Red Man - a Tribute To Longfellow's Hiawatha

Riding bareback ‘cross the wide plains Brave Geronimo in his deep pain Makes his pathway, looking forward Never losing faith in fortune To the far off land Dakota Where he will seek for an answer To the question that pursues him: How and why and where he came from. Warrior, peace man, loving life Through this world’s unending strife Boldly, lonely, empty-hearted Seeking out the place he started, Gripped and held in life’s deep wonder Hearing only endless thunder. ‘Cross the wide, dark Gitchigumi Named and famed by the Ojibwe Through the lands of the Navajo Apache, Cherokee and Sioux On and on he journeys fiercely Never pausing, never fal’tring Prowling through his mind’s great vastness: Infinite, eternal, endless: Here he seeks to cease pretending That he knows his life’s true meaning. Without guide, without companion Through forests wide and darkest canyon Holding fast his faith in meaning, Hope and purpose to his dreaming Of his love at home awaiting His return with light enlightened.