The crack of this wood,
Cedar burning to redeem
Secrets time dares not tell.
They're cast like a spell...

The smell of this grass
as I leave my foot pressed in it
brings shadows of past
and the taste of the dust
that is buried in it.
Before
These horns that are blown
their sounds I have known
and this tune that I hum
is of cobwebs undone, undone...

I have been here before,
smelt the taste of these hills.
Like cattle I grazed these fields
of an unknown terrain
where my heart met its pain, its pain
washed away by the rain...

The crack of this dawn,
Sun burning these skies to redeem
ties time dares not tell,
they're cast like a spell.

The smell of this grass
as I leave my foot pressed in it,
brings shadows of past
and the taste of the dust
that is buried in it.

I have swam these same seas,
rode the crest of waves like these.
I've had to row this same boat
without oars, before.
I have tracked these same woods,
fell off the face of these cliffs
and I know what it's like
to fly these skies without wings, before.

This wind that is blown
its lashings I have known
and the rhythm of this drum
speaks of cobwebs being done, being done...

I have been here before,
smelt the taste of this grass,
seen the flight of these clouds,
slept under these trees,
I fell here on my knees, before.

The crack of this wood,
Cedar burning to redeem
Secrets time dares not tell,
they're cast like a spell...

INA 2001 
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Photos: Ritual Objects of Native American Indians