Doug Morton
Sep 1, 2018 · 2 min read

Hi Ambreen and thanks for the prompt, and as always thanks to Kathy for hosting. I’m a little late with this because I’ve been off grid in Canada but the upside is that I got to read all the responses. I’ve got two for you. Here’s the first….

Crazy Horse

A proud Nation imprisoned since progress must be

It’s brave sons resisted The Land of the Free

So legends were born, Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse

Fighting for Right without fear or remorse

And many soldiers died by their cruel Warrior Hand

None more famous than Custer at his foolish last stand.

Then weakened by war and facing winter’s privation

Crazy Horse surrendered the Black Hills Reservation.

But this brave man never heard The Liberty Bell

Stabbed dead while captive in a cold prison cell.

One hundred and one years after the founding fathers signed the Declaration of Independence Crazy Horse died in his Father’s arms at the age of 35. He was four years old when the Liberty Bell rung out for the last time, but he would never have heard it. Nor would he want to since he stood against those who held it sacred. Those young Americans who flocked to the Bell during its road trips, starting just eight years after the killing of Crazy Horse, so prized their freedom from the British they didn’t see that they had cursed the Native Americans to a prison without Walls. The Black Hills were their Liberty Bell, their spiritual Mother and she was taken from them for gold, a substance for which they had no need. So a scared soldier, acting as his prison guard, spared Crazy Horse the horror of ‘peaceful’ living when he drove his bayonet deep into his abdomen

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