Wells where we once gathered to quell our endless thirst I've searched for a place, a peace I cannot describe Feeling somber, tranquility Relaxed, bliss here lies Ancestral utopia is? I cannot say for sure I imagine, I've drifted there From time to time I catch the fleeting things out of the corner of my eye I know them for certain Inspiration I've never known, but have always felt The presence enveloping me Deserted as the forest in the grip December seems lifeless and bleak Though she is timeless and radiant In the inner glow of secular peace I am molting into the natural flow Finding pieces to the twisted puzzle The fog is parting in favor; the sun These elements of nature, water over the rocks I sense like the composition of the galaxy Always aloft, yet always underfoot Inside the sacred elements guarded by hope and trust Every mistake I've learned from I made No one else can do this for me Nor could they see their own hand in front of their face Having become callused to believe Everything is dismal and done I find the dew on the morning flowers More entertaining than yesterdays' re-run movie Once taken in and digested Knowledge is unleashed To never perish or wither Until all life ends Revealing in the broad canopy of heaven Above me the giant arms of the forests trees The final abiding place of all things that grew Not requiring many words to speak the truth Knowledge is inherent in all living things My books are writings made of wind, grass, and animals A mans' heart way from nature becomes hard I suckle close to nature's soft influence Pour forth the melody from the thick brush around me Here in the unbroken chain of the forest Clinging close to these aromatic boughs and branches Pour forth the melody "Continue to contaminate your own bed, you will one night suffocate in your own waste"* High in the mist enshrouded peaks Glacier water turns into creeks Life bearing capillaries span across the plain Delivering life bringing fluids These arteries are now all polluted Sad, our profound sweeping melody Pour forth the end of humanity *Chief Seattle