Daniel Larson Poet Rhyme

In-between Lost Hours

I'd wasted the hours
     between midnight and dawn,
By dreaming of places
     where I did not belong.
Kept recalling  the words
     of an old country song,
About loving and life
     and all that can go wrong.

Woke up on the new morn
     to a grey colored sky;
Someone had said the sun
     won't shine until mid May.
Down the street the old dogs
     have been barking away,
Thought I should have then moved
     to eastern Mandalay.

Listened to the news that
     tomorrow will bring rains;
It's good news for farmers
     while others just complain.
Weather does some strange things,
     it can drive men insane;
They might find sanity
     on the south coast of Spain.

I spoke to a young gal
     in a calico dress,
Her beauty was quite soft
     but it also impressed.
Said she'd never be kept
     as she worked under stress,
Delivering the mail
     for the pony express

Swear I once had the keys
     to the kingdom in hand,
But I've since learned through years
     nothing e'er goes as planned.
In-between lost hours
     and distant shores of sand,
There's so much of life
    I'll never understand.

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