No Sleep
by
Walter Jones
(Age: 62)
copyright 04-09-2008
Age Rating: 16 to 127
There anit no water
There anit no sleep
There anit a body to keep
Just a memory of where I been
From how we started till how we end
In a block of ice and snow
A place where the cold wind blows
A baby born the same
Left for the wolfs of name
Mother just a child
Half human half wild
Trying to be what she can
Spread across a man
Hear the banshee howl
Coming for them
Coming now
Trapper old and lame
Stops the wind
Heals the pain
Fire of love
Has a name
Feared by one and all
Indians know him by Paul
As the lights call the sky
Woman child tries
Human form dies
Man she held
Does the same
Boy lives
With trapper lame
There anit no water
There anit no sleep
There anit no body to keep
Just a memory of where I been
From how we started till how we end
Fire of heaven voice of hell
Comfort comes in a spell
Shake of trees
Lead the way
Heart of soul
Trapper passes
A way
Wind she comes and wind she goes
Love of self presses past snow
Ribbons light the night
Amber deer and bear in flight
Ancient dreams
Speckled night
Run and go
There anit no water
There anit no sleep
There anit no body to keep
Just a memory of where I been
From how we started till how we end
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I'm minded of many things--as usual when I read your works--but sometimes one stronger thought pushes all the other images away. The variant of "ain't" to "anit" is interesting--especially if one troubles to find a deeper meaning.
And one should always trouble, because it isn't. Ya find the darndest things that way. ^^
But this write gives me a very strong vision of a pre-historic time, when racial memories (knowledge) was passed through the genes of each generation to the next. Also am impacted by visions of a body frozen for a long time, found by a different race of people many, many generations later, but through scientific (?) testing, some of the mysteries of our past were born again.
Or at least those of this immediate subject under our scientific (?) and learned (?) investigation into "The Life and Times of Paul--A Healer."
Would that everything I read cause my mind to venture so. ^_^