Friday, August 14, 2015

Sacred Fire


Sacred Fires July 9th 2012

First they say yes, you have the right, because they must, 
According to their own law. 
But then later they come secretly and forbid us.
You would think that by now, the irony would shame them so much 
That they would relent; and realize.
To trespass against one’s own soul is sorrow. 

This place, this piece of land  
                                                                                                                                                                
Is holy, and we reverence it with fire and the tradition.
If this were a war of Gods, then perhaps we could feel their power.
But it is a war of skin.  The power is only fear, and the insult is to the Great One.
How long can a people insult the Great Spirit?  

The Great One is very patient, it is true, and we have learned to sit with Him there, 
In humiliation.
But we light our sacred fires, and this is a ceremony that cannot be forbidden.
It cannot.

The truth is, I am a sacred fire.  

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