"To Walk The Red Road"
A long road winding began in the stars,
spilled onto the mountain tops,
carried in the snow to the streams,
to the rivers and the ocean.
It covers America, Canada;
north to Alaska and
southward to Mexico,
winding forever around the indigenous...
The Red Road is a Circle of people
standing hand in hand.
People in this world,
people in between, and
people of the Spirit World.
Star people
Animal people
Stone people
River people
Tree people
The Sacred Hoop...
To walk the Red Road is to know
sacrifice, suffering, and to
understand humility.
It is the ability to stand naked before
The Creator in all things;
for your wrong doings,
your lack of strength,
your dispassionate ways and
for your arrogance,
because to walk the Red Road
you always know you can do better.
You also know when you do good things
that it is through The Creator, and
you are grateful...
To walk the Red Road is to know
you stand on equal ground with all living things.
It is to know that because you were born "human"
it gives you superiority over nothing.
It is to know that everything on this Earth
carries a Spirit...
The river knows more than you do,
the mountains know more than you do,
the Star people know more than you do, and
the trees know more than you do.
The wind is wiser than you are, and
the Animals carry wisdom.
You can learn from every one of them
for they possess something we don't:
They are devoid of evil thoughts or deeds,
and they wish vengeance on no one.
To walk the Red Road is to accept
the rights given to you by The Creator.
You have the right to pray,
the right to dance,
the right to think,
the right to protect all you hold dear,
and the right to know Mother Earth.
You have the right to dream,
the right to seek your visions,
the right to teach,
and the right to learn.
You have the right to grieve your losses,
the right to be happy,
the right to fix the wrongs,
the right to know the truth,
and the right to enter the Spirit World
when your journey here is through...
To walk the Red Road
is to know your Ancestors,
and call upon them for assistance.
It is to know that there is Good Medicine
as well as Bad medicine.
It is to know that Evil exists,
but it is cowardly and often in disguise.
It is to know that those evil spirits are in constant watch
for a way to gain strength for themselves
at the expense of you...
To walk the Red Road
you have less fear of being wrong,
because you know that Life is a journey;
a continuous Circle, a Sacred Hoop...
Mistakes will be made, and
mistakes can be corrected if you will be humble;
for if you cannot be humble you will never know
when you have made a mistake!
If you walk the Red Road
you know that every sorrow
leads to better understanding;
every horror cannot always be explained,
but it can offer growth.
To walk the Red Road
is to look for beauty in all things;
it is to know that you will one day
cross over into the Spirit World
and you will not be afraid...
~CynnSongs'04~
