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Gunslinger
Senior Member

since 1999-10-09

Posts 901
TX, USA

0 posted 2004-05-16 12:03 PM

I sit and watch the sun go down,
And paint the western sky.
My thoughts now tend to dwell upon...
The fact that all men die.

"That's quite a morbid subject",
Some people tend to say.
But I find no depression,
With the ending of the day.

I love the blend of colors,
When the day dies in the west.
And I think of all the phases,
I like this one the best.

In my youth I was too reckless,
In my prime I was too hard.
But now there is a tenderness,
Although I'm gray and scarred.

I stop to smell the roses,
I've learned to take it slow.
And now I take a camera,
Almost everywhere I go.

I sit and sip my coffee,
Listen to the whippoorwill,
And smile to hear the coyote's song,
On some barren, desert hill.

I'd like to die out yonder...
Let the vultures pick my bones.
And lie there as I've lived so long,
Unbound and all alone.

And if you chance to find me,
Don't place me in the ground.
Just whisper, "Cowboy, rest in peace-
Your final sun's gone down".

passing shadows
Member Empyrean

since 1999-08-26

Posts 45577
displaced

1 posted 2004-05-16 04:14 AM

I love your perspective...

Sunshine

Administrator

Member Empyrean

since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
Listening to every heart

2 posted 2004-05-16 07:09 AM

John, this is a definite

One of your best, ever!

Karilea - if I whisper, will you listen? Keeping in mind, I must stand close...

Marge Tindal

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since 1999-11-06

Posts 42384
Florida's Foreverly Shores

3 posted 2004-05-16 07:21 AM

Slinger~
I hope you can hear the for this piece~
*Huglets*
~*Marge*~

~*When the heart grieves over what it has lost,
the spirit rejoices over what it has left.
- Sufi epigram <))><

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Enchantress
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since 2001-08-14

Posts 35113
Canada eh.

4 posted 2004-05-16 08:28 AM

"And if you chance to find me,
Don't place me in the ground.
Just whisper, "Cowboy, rest in peace-
Your final sun's gone down"."

Just when I thought I had seen you at you best cowboy..
You come along and overwhelm me with yet another beauty.
Awesome write m'friend...well done.
~Smiles & Hugs, Nancy~

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

JamesMichael
Member Empyrean

since 1999-11-16

Posts 33336
Kapolei, Hawaii, USA

5 posted 2004-05-16 10:25 PM

I believe many a cowboy died that way...and in their boots...James

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