“Lost a Warrior Today”

Our world lost a warrior

Just today

The bravest of fighter

For our native ways

Singer of the truth

Fight you nail and tooth

He’s with our ancestors

Beneath the Sacred Tree.

The winds lost a voice

That represented choice

Yet his spirit will visit

Let us all rejoice

As the struggle he fought for

Will carry on

I’m so damn sad

To know that he’s gone.

He stood for every tribe and nation

Swam to shores

To fight the indignation

Spoke the words

So many called obscene

My heart is weeping

For my brother…

Russell Means.

As the Great Spirit

Brings him home

Seven generations

Will smile, yet mourn

Father sky

Grandfather sun

Mother Earth

Grandmother moon…

Will wrap around his spirit

Take him in to their womb…

It was a bad day today

A sad one

Bad one

We lost a warrior today

I can’t wait to see him

Just to hear him say

Our world,

Lost a warrior today.