Long Shadows Poem by Anthony Russomanno

Long Shadows run before First Light

Ascend over mountain morning mist

In the of canyons of the mind they hide

Stone shadows cast in silent slumber

Dens beneath hidden rocky cliffs

Where wolf and cougars spirit ran

Silence fills their dens empty now

No cry or howl heard on the wind

No Crow or Sioux hunts with them

In the dreams of the fallen warrior

Long shadows turn before the night

Forgotten steps into eternal slumbers

Follow the rain that feed rushing rivers

In the valley where no flowers bloom

On mountaintop where totems stand

Eagle feathers bless the burying-ground

Where's the Campfires embers glow

No Redman to dance or strings his bow

Only a memory frozen in winter's snow