ee-yoh-dahn wah-shah-kay (new poem by Angel Dunworth)

IYOTA WASAKE




The world turns

and turns again,

The forests burn,

In worlds of men.




The ocean dies,

Mountains speak,

Of broken bones

That mines deplete.




Grandfather hear our sacred prayer,

Help us clean the toxic air,

Wankan Tanka, Great Mystery,

Open our eyes that we might see,

That Father Sky and Mother Earth

Are sacred beings beyond worth.

Please help us walk in a good way,

ee-yoh-dahn wah-shah-kay




For within worlds

lie worlds unseen

Like teaming life

in trees of green,




Or the universe

beneath the sand

whose only hope,

Lies in our hands.







Grandfather hear us one and all

We cry as one as mountains fall

Wankan Tanka, Great Mystery,

Help us to change history

For Father Sky and Mother Earth

Are sacred beings beyond worth.

Please help us walk in a good way,

ee-yoh-dahn wah-shah-kay

*** All words in Sioux translate roughly into "Almighty"