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Gunslinger
Senior Member

since 1999-10-09

Posts 901
TX, USA

0 posted 2004-07-08 12:46 PM

I’m burning all my bridges.
I’m cutting all my ties.
I guess that turning fifty…
Made me stop and realize:

That youth don’t last forever,
And after it is gone…
Things work out so much better-
If a man goes on alone.

So I’ll finish out my trail alone.
The way I’ve always been.
I’d give a million dollars,
To have known it all back then.

I live and love within my books-
Leave romance in my mind.
The kind of life I wanted,
Is the kind you never find.

A cowboy in my younger days,
A drifter till I die.
I never could establish roots,
I’m too old now to try-

When my last bridge is burning,
And I’m drifting loose and free-
Just bury me the place I drop,
That’s how it’s meant to be.

Sunshine

Administrator

Member Empyrean

since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
Listening to every heart

1 posted 2004-07-08 10:01 AM

I live and love within my books-
Leave romance in my mind.
The kind of life I wanted,
Is the kind you never find.

~*~

I'm always amazed as to how cowboys
are truly the most romantic of poets...

Thank you for this, John.

Nightshade

Member Patricius

since 2001-08-31

Posts 13962
just out of reach

2 posted 2004-07-08 10:32 AM

This seems sad to me .... but if it is the way that you want it ... okay then.
Your words always touch me deeply Gunslinger.
I am certain that there are many females out there just a wishin' you'd change your mind and settle down. Ah well. hugs, Chris

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

LeeJ
Member Patricius

since 2003-06-19

Posts 13296

3 posted 2004-07-08 10:38 AM

I live and love within my books-
Leave romance in my mind.
The kind of life I wanted,
Is the kind you never find.

I see more then saddness a great understanding of self here...

John, this was well understood.

Thank you for sharing.

passing shadows
Member Empyrean

since 1999-08-26

Posts 45577
displaced

4 posted 2004-07-08 01:04 PM

I love this! and I agree

Enchantress
Member Empyrean

since 2001-08-14

Posts 35113
Canada eh.

5 posted 2004-07-08 06:02 PM

Don't be so sure cowboy.
Ya just never know when the love bug might jump up and bite ya!

Love this write.
Hugs~

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

WhiteRose
Member Elite

since 2002-07-23

Posts 3208
somebody's dungeon

6 posted 2004-07-08 06:22 PM

I really like this! Great job.

Susan
Member Ascendant

since 2004-03-27

Posts 5104
walking the surreal

7 posted 2004-07-08 06:54 PM

Fifty! You's just a youngin'. Still, though I find it most sad, traveling roads alone, it is understood.

Susan

Happiness isn't something that happens to you, it's created from within you. Joy is a state of mind.

iliana
Member Patricius

since 2003-12-05

Posts 13434
USA

8 posted 2004-07-09 12:31 PM

Much enjoyed the writing.....also, I took a look at your website. There are wonderful pieces there!

.....jo

scorpio
Member Ascendant

since 2002-10-02

Posts 5178
right...there

9 posted 2004-07-09 08:32 AM

Well written John. But I agree with Enchantress. You can never predict when love will sneak up on you on life's trail. Perhaps you should be sleeping with one eye open?

believe in what your heart feels...

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