Wild Horses
Wild horses still run
racing off to the beat
of some distant drum
the wind catching their wheat
in the swaying winter manes
with their figures a shadow in open plains.
Hoof beats pound the earth
pounding out the rhythm of a storm
where sky and land were birthed
and yearlings were free when first born
harnessed of late by the girth and bridle of man
they slip into submission apart from the open land.
Wild horses have withered over the years
as native lands are taken away
and the memory of freedom disappears
every day in the games men play
long rivers and flat rocks no longer bend the knee
to the mountains falling into the sea.
"The Wind of Heaven"
Justin Hayward
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5RMPUJE44s&list=PLO-UbICkLW9N1nn4ZW7m0JbHHPtxmjWVW&index=5
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