Then and Now
Looking back to the old west I can see
the open plains with the tall grass
weaving in the breeze and the clouds
floating high in the sky.
In the distance there is a cloud of dust
coming from a herd of buffalo on the run.
The reason they are running I do not know
but they are coming fast hopefully they
will stop at the tall grass to eat.
For there is a thousand or more of them.
In the distance I can see there are men upon
horses with bow and arrows in amongst the herd
they are the hunting party from a village near by.
For the people of that village need food and clothing
from the mighty buffalo to survive. They take just
what they need and no more. For they know how to live
with nature, not against it. For this reason I admire
them. They were very smart in the ways of nature
more so than we are now days.
They believed in the Great Spirit and Mother Earth
and a lot of other spirits or gods. They also believed
in visions. Something now days, if we get them, we just
dismiss them and go on with our lives.
Prehaps if we took heed of them we would not be in the
state that we are.
But who am I to say anything about this subject for
I am nobody. I do wish and pray that we will come back
and start to use our good common sense before it is to
late.
This is just my opinion.
Copyright © Betty Lane | Year Posted 2005
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