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Gunslinger
Senior Member

since 1999-10-09

Posts 901
TX, USA

0 posted 2003-02-26 02:03 AM

Time stands still for no man-
At last I realize...
My life is mostly over,
It comes as a surprise.

It seems like only yesterday,
When I was seventeen,
Eyes wide, anticipating-
A world I'd never seen.

The drifting, and the ranch work,
The desert, and the plains.
Thumbing rides on Interstates,
Riding long, freight trains.

Camping in the jungles,
A mission in St. Paul...
And everyone kept telling me,
"You're riding for a fall!"

By the time that I'd turned thirty
My cynicism won...
I dealt in lies and treachery,
And always had a gun.

Now, that too, is behind me.
What I am, I used to hate...
Would you call it irony?
Or is it merely fate?

passing shadows
Member Empyrean

since 1999-08-26

Posts 45577
displaced

1 posted 2003-02-26 02:41 AM

one never knows...

majnu

Senior Member

since 2002-10-13

Posts 1088
SF Bay Area

2 posted 2003-02-26 03:06 AM

this was quite cool. it was almost cliche at times, but somehow it just was painly honest and that is refreshing amongst poems that try so hard.

-majnu
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Timid thoughts be not afraid. I am a Poet.

GG
Member Elite

since 2002-12-03

Posts 3532
Lost in thought

3 posted 2003-02-26 06:46 AM

I love all your stories of the rodeo days and your great rhymes. This is no exception.
Though, I carry a knife with me most places, like you said a gun.. but then, I'm a fifteen year old girl. Maybe it has something to do with the fights placed before us.
Loved this,
Always, Alyssa

- And so it was that time stood still -
(blink, breathe, stand, fight)

JamesMichael
Member Empyrean

since 1999-11-16

Posts 33336
Kapolei, Hawaii, USA

4 posted 2003-02-26 09:06 AM

It does seem like the years fly...and one day you wake up and your thirty, and one day you wake up and your forty, and so forth...James

bbent
Senior Member

since 2001-01-07

Posts 521
Alaska

5 posted 2003-02-26 09:24 AM

I really can relate to this,a question I've had to ask myself as sometimes I seem to be fighting awfully hard to become that which I despise.ENJOYED!!!

Live like it's your last day...
Dance like nobody's watching...
Love like you've never been hurt...

Enchantress
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since 2001-08-14

Posts 35113
Canada eh.

6 posted 2003-02-26 09:26 AM

Very profound write, asking an interesting question John.
Well done, hugs, Nancy.

~ Trace my body with your words..
And in doing so, you touch my heart. ~

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