Who are you
Dan McGrew?
You sound quite mean
If rumours' true
You lodged yourself
Inside his head
Some seventy years
Still, now you're dead
A tale of love
Of bars and booze
The wheel of fate
Alas, you lose
The west was wild
Back in the day
As danger framed
Each male afray
But what of Lou?
The lady fair
Of unkissed lips
And tousled hair
A broken heart
May never mend
A scar unhealed
Until the end
So as our story
Precious told
Still held in head
Though tired and old
A life not lost
No shooting here
Just words uncovered
Crystal clear
By man with joy
For life, 'tis true
May soon reunite
With his own lady Lou
As slowly I crawled towards the end
The fog started covering the land
Nothing but whitness all around me
Nothing but darkness all inside me
I didn't understand if it was hiding the goal for me
Or hiding the skull of those who had failed
But I did understand the fear inside me
That continuously asked me to afray
So near I couldn't hold my breath
My eyes trying to find the aim
My ears cold but ready to hear a noise
My heart beat pumping making me sweat in dark cold night
Stumbling on the stones
Finding the path as if I were blind
I slowly started feeling
As if I were nearby
Suddenly the blanket revealed it's cover
I tried to see and found nothing but a place to hover
It was neither my destination nor was it what I wanted
It was like a station where
Though I could rest but at end will have to move forward,
Will have to move forward
My journey continues
A trail taut with torment
Fraught with threads afray
Once fastidious, your intricacies so fervent
Now cease to self-fascinate and fade away.
I washed away your beauty as I
drank all you had to give,
For I was poor and lonely,
While you were all-too-quick to forgive.
A fool, in an all-you-can-eat fools buffet,
I was too quick
To take what you were freely
giving away.
Now unwound the truth unfolds,
To show the sew sawed and severed.
A final, swansong voice to those untolds.
My core torn, our souls entwined, your sanity...
Untethered.
Poppin is my teddy bear
button eyes of grey
black and white his furry hair
thats just a bit afray
He's been a friend
for such a time
each lonely hour we sat
together contemplating life
and where it is we're at
We clowned around and played a bit
and slept together too
when I was a bit depressed
he was a shade of blue
The earth was ours together
upon us shone the sky
rain did often soak his hair
and got wet so did I
A vicarious companion
he was the only one
neighbors were so far away
much to far to come
He'll always have a place with us
a spot that we can share
He's come of age and so have I
and now he's losing hair
Entwined we share the wisdom
of childhood days gone by
and draw upon the comfort
as our journey draws to nigh
COPYRIGHT © 2009 C Michael Miller
via Duboff Law Group LLC
WRITTEN IN 1982