A Historic Event

In the heart of my heart I cry for you in the harbor of my despair I feel your emptiness a land once yours was lost stolen by men whose hearts were cold and whose greed and hate knew no bounds Prisoners on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation where nothing lived only impoverished people Once proud warriors who traveled the plains moving with the winds of freedom whose tears have fallen upon sacred ground to be swallowed by the Earth stripped of your pride stripped of your guns A people lost in the wicked transition of time kept like cattle, treated like dogs Lonely the empty eyes of the Lakota when the looked towards the sun on a Winter December morning seeing soldiers approaching in the dim lit shade of sunrise heavily armed on horseback dragging four Hotchkiss guns bringing death to two hundred and fifty unarmed Lakota men women and children on the frozen creek bed at Wounded Knee where cruelity brought its bloody coat from Hell When it was over vultures picked at the frozen flesh left to rot in the cold like so much garbage Twenty soldiers received the medal of honor for duty above and beyond for this massacre of innocence Wounded Knee Massacre December 29 1890 South Dakota 250 Lakota Souix massacred by the 7th Calvery Hotchkiss gun-gatling gun 9/19/20 contest A Historic Event