Gem Stone Poet Lyric

Finding Kate

I'm a retired policeman
Could find the hidden clue
Became a detective for hire
Gave me something to do.

Got a text from a man named Mark
looking for a friend named Kate.
Wanted me to overturn each stone
and to find her city, state.

I remembered Celia
The woman I'd lost
We'd broken up and gone our ways
And then I felt the cost.

So I thought I understood
What Mark was trying to do
I wanted to do all I could
To make that love renew.

He knew what she went to school for
What town she lived in then
But that was 40 years or more
No more clues, where, what, or when.

I tried to locate this dame
But it was very hard.
So long ago, a school, a name
Lots of wrong turns to discard

I sent him photos to his phone
They all shared her name
He was uncertain, didn't know
My searching seemed in vain

Then I stumbled on something,
A detail and a thread,
Followed it and finally
Was sure where it led.

Told him I could call her
Give a message he could write
Then the plot got thicker
It got me real uptight.

He said he'd leave her alone
She wasn't really his old flame
Knowing her was traumatic
Knowing her was pain.

He said that she's in Utah
Not where he thought she'd be
He'd been wrong on his deductions
had left reality.

I thought he was crazy, 
sorry I had located Kate
Hoped I hadn't done harm
Hoped it wasn't too late

I sent a message to her
Explained what Mark had tried
She laughed it off uncertainly
But underneath she cried.

Mark texted me again
He said a Mafia gassed him through the air
I informed his local police
My duty, I had to share.

Mark's madness remains
He wants to save you too
He warns of drugs that change the brain
The man has gone cuckoo.

As for me I'm now a painter
Draw pictures by the sea
Leaving PI was a no-brainer
Can't do harm with artistry.

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