FOR EVER HEALED
Come join the Sun dance,
call up the ancestors---
beloved gone, mothers---
children, warriors, elders---
-- good dogs, horses, crows
flying in on dream clouds
to dance around the Truth
with all of us, every love
remembered, shared, revered
inside the circle around the Tree;
the scent of day, the drum of earth
to fathers’ feet and falling rain.
Relationships affirmed,
all relations* honored.
The covenant is sealed,
and all are healed.
Praying now, what lights
in many forms may come
to show and guide,
we thank and celebrate.
* With tree, and Thou, and thee and thy, and all who can and cannot see, that crawl or swim, or fly or skim,
or walk and talk in sacred ways.
*dedicated to my Wailaki Indian friend, Coyote.
