Left Behind No More

Earth has my life written all over it, my bones have fallen into the grave

Where the challenge of song and dance, was driven into ashes of flames

Left behind, our native trail, the teepees of family, the leather skin on our back

No more, will the dream be left, it shall spread, in the wild, like the ivy, poison

Not to be touched, just looked upon, growing and entwined, aging in place over the tree

Of life, the owl will watch, the timber wolf will follow, and the eagle shall protrect

The reason for our being, the Cherokee, the brave, who fought for peace, and victory

Though we walked the path of tears, the tears now frozen, and we walk once again

In a new way, a new star, a new water, where we become the shining moon of all time

No more, left behind