Rest and Release

Rest your head in a pillow of clouds
The weary and broken down listen
Count the miles on your feet
Count them like the sheep
Aimlessly eating from the fields 
Measure the myths and comb the cobwebs
Scatter the differences and pray
Tomorrow breathes in another sky
Release the everyday burden
Judgements creep around fallen friends
They probably never had a chance
A highway song of remembrance
Beneath a summer moon
Smoke signals for the lost
Across the great divide....
Copyright © | Year Posted 2014

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Deschler Avatar
May 30, 2014 at 10:56 PM
This is a beautiful write, Jeffrey. Your words put such a calming image into my mind as I read this. I can just picture someone lying on the ground and looking up at the clouds, reminiscing about their life.... Really great work!
Breidenthal Avatar
May 28, 2014 at 7:44 PM
I enjoyed reading this piece! very great poem. Always, Laura
Bovee Avatar
May 28, 2014 at 8:15 PM
Thank you Laura, I really appreciate you reading it. I actually really dig this one also, came easy not like some others! Lol
Lindley Avatar
May 26, 2014 at 10:08 PM
This is another very fine write!!! I hope you get to submit these in some future contests here!! A fantastic write!!!
Bovee Avatar
May 28, 2014 at 8:16 PM
Robert, thank you my friend!
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