Naduah's Spirit Song 

 
They say I am a white woman,
but my spirit flies with the Comanche.
Though they said my name was Cynthia,
Naduah is the name I knew.
They told me warriors killed my family
and took me as their own,
but the ways of the Comanche
are what I learned as I grew.

They say that they are savages
but I called them my people.
White men told how I was rescued,
but I could not call their place my home.
The father of my children,
Peta Nocona, a Quahada chief.
died of wounds from battle,
now his spirit can freely roam.

my daughter, Topasannah — Prairie Flower, 
came with me to the white man’s world,
but my sons were left behind,
little Quanah, and Pecos his brother.
This life I could not bear to live,
after Pecos and his sister died,
I’d not yet lasted forty winters,
but I refused to live another.

Now I have left my earthly home
for the place where spirits go,
and once again I can watch 
as my Quanah meets his fate.
He is a mighty warrior chief,
I can hear his battle cry,
he’s leader of his father’s tribe,
and he is destined to be great!


oct 2003
© Janet Reid 




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