I pray to the great spirit <br />guide me through this pain <br />this world conflicts <br />show me a world that holds no lies <br />that treats us like convicts <br />abandoned by society <br />in a world we once walked so free <br /> <br />Show me a setting sun <br />where blood never flows <br />like rivers turned red <br />where another one dies <br />underneath these blood red skies <br /> <br />Guide me through this land so dead <br />where visions stay in my head <br />teach me things nobody knows <br />when this day is gone <br />and all has come undone <br /> <br />Give me the strength I need <br />to make this a better place <br />when my people bleed <br />from this world falling from grace <br /> (1998)<br /><br />Spiritwind Wood<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-cherokee-prayer/
