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Gunslinger
Senior Member

since 1999-10-09

Posts 901
TX, USA

0 posted 2004-05-09 03:48 AM

I used to be a loner,
It was the life I chose.
I traveled 'round the country,
While chasin' rodeos.

Motel rooms and pick-up seats-
Were a way of life.
No time to raise a family,
Nor time to take a wife.

My goal was be a champion-
To win fortune and fame,
To be the best that ever was,
To build myself a name.

But fortune always passed me by,
Or chose the other gate,
One day I sadly realized,
Cowboy, you're second rate.

But tell me, what's a man to do-
If all the trade he knows,
Is going down a rough old road,
To small town rodeos?

Sleepin' in hard, lumpy beds,
With too much time alone.
Living from a suitcase,
With the highway for his home?

But friend, I'm not complaining-
I wear the brand with pride,
I'm just a Texas tumbleweed-
Who fate decreed to ride.

I'll either ride them, or I won't
I'll score or I'll get throwed.
I'll bank a lot of memories,
From lots of miles of road...

So let this be my epitaph-
"He lived, he loved, he died-
Say what you will, it's evident,
The man was born to ride."

passing shadows
Member Empyrean

since 1999-08-26

Posts 45577
displaced

1 posted 2004-05-09 04:07 AM

we got a rodeo here (finally)...so if you come this way, lemme know. We'll go out for a drink.

Well, the poem...yaknow John, I say you're lucky...because at least you have a goal

Sunnyone
Member Ascendant

since 2000-07-06

Posts 5334
Staffordshire, England

2 posted 2004-05-09 04:54 AM

At least you can look back on your life, content in knowing that you were successful and loved what you did!! Wonderful work, and ride on, cowboy!!! ~S~

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life

iliana
Member Patricius

since 2003-12-05

Posts 13434
USA

3 posted 2004-05-09 05:10 AM

Okay, Gunslinger -- now, I figure you must be from East Texas -- am I right? Well, 'tho I'm a transplant from Ohio, I gave birth to my son here 15 years ago, and have lived here for 20 years now. So, I consider myself a Texan. I truly enjoy your poetry because it has the real feel of what makes a Texan about it (if I can be so bold). All of your poems, not just this one.

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