Comanche
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Presently reading "The Empire of the Summer Moon" - Best history of the conquest of the West since "Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee" I've read; provides fantastically detailed insight into the culture of the Comanches, the last tribe, save the Apaches, to capitulate to the inevitable Western Movement of the U.S. of A.
COMANCHE
My mounts and I are one.
Across the plains we fly
Like the wind that scours
Like the sun that burns,
The cold that kills.
The Buffalo Spirit thunders in my blood,
Guides my way through the featurelesss land:
I draw the bow
Strike and move on.
My ways are old
As the ways of Earth;
A harshness you have all forgotten.
Know this, White Man From The East:
If the Soul of this place
Doesn't lay you straight
To feed the soil with your bones,
I will.
Copyright © William Masonis | Year Posted 2014
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