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The End Of The Trail

Exhaustion, the dust in my mouth water hole just beyond the hill many moons have passed since my Winter home heat beats down, yet I feel a chill wigwams full of hungry papoose the old and weak will soon die though there is a powerful pride in my chest Somehow still I begin to cry all good land now taken as we starve here on these plains no meat to eat, no tobacco no stores of winter grain I feel the great spirit it calls to me from beyond the sky I'm slipping from my steed soon like the eagle my spirit will fly Like many warriors before me and great chiefs whose bones now lie pale I must go home to my ancestors for it is the end of the trail. Tom Atterberry {Berryville Productions} 12-11-93

Copyright © April 2000 Tom Atterberry


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