From: HC@yabbs
To: all@yabbs
Subject: The Loner
Date: Mon Jun 27 21:29:23 1994

Out of the shadows
He walks to the cliff's edge,
Cautiously looking out across his vast kingdom.
He howls at everything and at nothing.
He listens for the echo
And it soon returns.
But is it his own voice,
Or that of his hidden cohorts
He alone knows that answer
He alone can tell
For he is their brother
And they are the pack
 
He is ruled by himself alone.
He is slave to nothing but his own mind.
For he is Ghost-who-walks-alone.
He lets out one last thunderous howl
And effortlessly slips back into the darkened valley.
    The valley eclipsed by the ruins of a once greater time
A time that shall soon return.
 
Was he real?
Or was he only a mirage from the past...
 
Only The Trickster knows...
Only the leader of the Great Ghost dance can answer...
 
The answer is but a single howl,
From the lone coyote.
Then silence...
 
 
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Copyright 1994
  Howling Coyote