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What You Can'T Break

You can take my house

you can take my truck

you can take my money

I don't give a f***

but you can't take 

what you can't break

you can't touch my heart

or the memories, anniversaries,

birthdays, holidays, or talks in the dark

you can't touch my heart



you can take my pension

take your alimony

take all you can get

just leave me lonely

I'll always be free

something in me 

you could never hold

a rambling, restless

wandering soul

so you got the best 

I had to give

now all I wanna do

is live



we're still friends

until the end

we'll help our kids

raise our grand-kids

we'll toast the life

we had together

but we both know

it was time to go

let the eight ball roll


i'll be back again

I don't know when

birthdays, holidays, anniversaries

but until then

I'll be under the moon

gazing up at the stars

serenading the night

on an old guitar

free as a bird

with a song in my heart

the sun on my shoulder

one day dumber and one day older

with nothing but nothing

before me

and nothing but you

behind me

not gone, not forgotten

just far away as a balloon can fly

that's all I wanna be

'til the day I die

so take my house

take my truck

take my money

I don't give a f___

you can't take

what you can't break

you can't hold

this wandering soul

only the wind knows

where I'll go

I'm wild and free

like I want to be

don't care what it cost

for me to be lost

just gotta go

wherever I roam

like the buffalo

it's all my home

and in the end

I'd love you again

but I'm all air

and you're all ground

your love held me there

kept me far enough down

to have a family

raise five beautiful kids

and when they were gone

you did what you did

let go of your balloon on a string

watched it sail away

until you couldn't see

does it still love you

it always will

even as it disappears

over the hill

so take my house

take me truck

take my money

I don't give a f___

you could take 

and you could break

all of me

I'd still be free

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Benjamin Bartley

Date: 7/22/2024 4:03:00 PM

I can sooooo relate. Though I don't have 5 kids and she's passed away, I'm still glad to be free too! Thanks for sharing.

Steven Young
Date: 7/22/2024 8:45:00 PM

Thanks for comment... You know i've been featured maybe three times three years... That they would pick this to feature on the day they did is the Universe talking... because she got remarried the same day... I had forgotten about this poem :)