WHITE ANTELOPE'S SONG
by Sondra Ball
The children screamed before the guns at Sand Creek under autumn sun
while the death song of White Antelope rang out across the sand,
"Nothing lives long except the earth and the mountains."
It was the only end could come from those who followed fife and drum
across the grasses waving through the miles of open land.
"Nothing lives long except the earth and the mountains."
They only saw with blinded eyes an old man who seemed so unwise
to stand where soldiers' raging guns would press him to the sand.
"Nothing lives long except the earth and the mountains."
Their eyes were blind; they could not know the truth White Antelope
      would show,
as he sang clear and loud across the miles of open land,
"Nothing lives long except the earth and the mountains."
Their own fate and their children's lives were predetermined by that strife
to be a cry for peace destroyed by blood stains on the sand.
"Nothing lives long except the earth and the mountains."
                          copyright 1997 sondra ball
                          pblished NQS, spring, 1997
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 þ SLMR 2.1a þ Time flies like wind.  Fruit flies like pears.
--- Opus-CBCS 1.7x via O_QWKer 1.7 
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