This is an easy one for me, because when I grew up, (someday I'll grow up) I wanted to live in the time of cowboys and indians. I wanted to be a gun-slinger really bad. Pulling my twin shooters, taking down people with my hot steel and not caring who they were.
When I was young I could see myself, with my spurs and my horse, and my cowboy boots, and hat. Riding out onto the plains. Only stopping to bunk for the night. Living under the big sky and doing what I want, when I want, with who I want.
Yeah, that would be the life.... I could see it all.
Big dreams for a indian kid, growing up on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in North Dakota. Until I realized that the indian was the 'bad guy' An American Indian growing up wanting to be a cowboy, isn't an uncommon thing.
But I'm a lucky one I've realized that I'm an Indian and I wouldn't want to be anything else. And I've also learned that there are no 'bad guys' or 'good guys'
but there are Cowboys and Indians
Blackrabbit
well put. I like the message you're putting out there, however the layout seems more like a story rather than a poem
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
This was incredible. I agree, I'm an Indian and wouldn't want to be anything else. :)