Glad That I Lived as a Cowboy

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Gunslinger
Senior Member

since 1999-10-09

Posts 901
TX, USA

0 posted 2004-06-14 11:49 AM

I'm tired of riding into the sunsets-
All the happy endings are gone.
Somebody else gets the lady,
And I ride into the sunset alone.

I liked it while back in my twenties,
I needed no anchor around-
My body would still wake up rested,
After spending my nights on the ground.

The future back then looked so rosey,
That someday I'd have me a home,
But now looking back, in my fifties,
I find I'm too often alone.

I was thinking, if I could start over-
What are the things I would change?
Would I try to get more education?
Would I not live a life on the range?

Then I smile among my reminisces-
At the cowboys, and girls that I've known...
And decide that the price is a fair one,
There's worse things than riding alone...

I could have been tied to an office-
Soft hands never knowing a rope.
With a pallor like I'd been in prison...
Addicted to power, or dope.

Two cars, and a mortgage, three children...
And a wife that I never did see;
This way there's but one to account for...
The guy that I shave (meaning me).

There's no turning time to the rearwards,
No need for a person to try-
But I'm glad that I lived as a cowboy,
In my heart I'll be one till I die.

Enchantress
Member Empyrean

since 2001-08-14

Posts 35113
Canada eh.

1 posted 2004-06-14 12:01 PM

"But I'm glad that I lived as a cowboy,
In my heart I'll be one till I die."

And, you know I'm so glad you are one too!
Loved this cowboy...you know I do!
You keep writing them...we'll keep reading them.
~Smiles & Hugs, Nancy~

~Somewhere in my heart I'm always
Dancing with you in the summer rain~

iliana
Member Patricius

since 2003-12-05

Posts 13434
USA

2 posted 2004-06-14 12:47 PM

"Then I smile among my reminisces-
At the cowboys, and girls that I've known...
And decide that the price is a fair one,
There's worse things than riding alone..."

Loved that verse above. Glad you lived that life to because we get to read such wonderful words because you did!

...jo

Nightshade

Member Patricius

since 2001-08-31

Posts 13962
just out of reach

3 posted 2004-06-14 01:30 PM

The future back then looked so rosey,
That someday I'd have me a home,
But now looking back, in my fifties,
I find I'm too often alone.

You'll never be alone Gunslinger!
You have all of us!
Wonderful write as usual. hugs, Chris

Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.
Hans Christian Anderson

JL
Member Ascendant

since 2004-04-01

Posts 6128
Texas, USA

4 posted 2004-06-14 03:27 PM

Great story. Way to go Cowboy!

JL

She said: ”You look cute in the dark.”

scorpio
Member Ascendant

since 2002-10-02

Posts 5178
right...there

5 posted 2004-06-14 03:38 PM

John this is a great write. Introspective and compelling. But you will never be alone. The sunsets, tumbleweed and trails will always be with you. And so will your horse!!!

believe in what your heart feels...

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