Drum Beats

The chant goes on raises in pitch
The drum begins to beat along with
My body convulsing
Enchanted I begin to see the spirits
As I move through a world yet
Largely unseen
By the passerby who seems ignorant
To all the possibilities surrounding
This mortal coil
Can anyone else know the journeys
that I have made in front of their eyes
Alone, unencumbered
Our heartbeats are combined
A singular rhythm and time
Mother Earth and I
I sing to all Nature her glorious deeds
And she comforts me with this grass
So very soft
And shelters me with Her well-placed trees
And feeds me with their fruits filled with
Juicy decadence
I remember what it is to dance the circle of Life
A dance that is so wild and free that it becomes
Dangerously evocative
As I sing to the stars and the Sun and the Moon
Telling them of their beauty with such pride with
My ancestors
On their shoulders we all have tread
Our ancestors fighting for our lives in an
Unending battle
I sing and I remember all of the stories of
Grandmother moon and Grandfather Sun
Lover's Two
And the great spirit that brought us all to being
In an instant out of Himself for His own reasons
Ever mysterious
Then there's Coyote playing His tricks
He is friends with my Raccoon
Ornery duo
And of the white Buffalo woman
Who first showed us the Holy Pipe
With selfless love
Passed down through the ages
I am reminded that I am
A warrior