"Drum Heartbeats"
Michael
North Middle School
Pennington, SD
The native drum is a symbol,
not only a symbol but a heart.
When I hear the drum...
the singing...
I feel my heart beating with the drum,
and I wonder...
am I the follower or the leader?
Then my heart beats faster,
faster,
and faster
Then stops.
Just like that.
I go blank
a man was sitting there and he said to me
“Break the bad rules...make good ones,”
and then I awoke like a Dracula coming out of his longest slumber.
I said,
“I’m the leader.”