A Lost Coup
by
cherokee_thorn


Over the drums of time
hearts yearn
for a lost land.

Fathers families driven
to desolate
barren ground.

Escorts descendants
live full well in
wigwams of steel and stone.

Plains of buffalo chips
buried under
black oil smelling trails.

Lodge poles
of endless
miles of wire.

Tears nourish the
wildflowers
yet untouched.

knees press
forgotten footprints
of the past.

Clouded now
by my prayers
of smoke.

Cherokee Thorn
� 2002
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