The Ghost Dance

The spirit of hopeful salvation.

A shirt of impenetrable protection.

White man’s bullets, deep penetration,

killing hundreds with insatiable aggression.

Wounded Knee, becoming a place for destruction

of spirt, of body, of women and children, compunction

never to become a part of white man’s conscious compassion

as he steals, plunders, rapes, pillages, kills with self-satisfaction

Today, hundreds of years later, First Nations battle white man’s gratification

for the lands left the Land Owners, who were just care givers, never their possession.

B. J. “A” 2

November 2^nd 2016