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Gunslinger
Senior Member

since 1999-10-09

Posts 901
TX, USA

0 posted 2006-07-20 12:38 PM

I spent all of my thirties,
Just "Goin' down the road."
Although I made a living,
Too often I got throwed.

Each pile-up took it's toll I guess,
One day I realized...
The guys that I was riding with,
Were kids! What a surprise!

I threw away my youth like that,
And likewise went my health.
And middle-aged before you start-
Don't tend to lead to wealth.

And romance is for dreamers-
It's hard to find a wife,
Who'll widow for the Circuit...
And the rough-stock rider's life.

The hot streak I was riding-
Overnight turned out so cold.
At "fifty-three and holding"-
Friends say I'm getting old.

I look back on years I've lived...
And wonder where they've gone,
And all that lies before me,
Are my sunset years...alone.

passing shadows
Member Empyrean

since 1999-08-26

Posts 45577
displaced

1 posted 2006-07-20 01:36 AM

John, this touches deeply but moreso that i can relate

we all look around and see kids around us and realize our youth is gone...soon they will too...the cycle goes on

kinda sad, but I guess we all make choices in life...I know I made some bad ones myself

themute
Member

since 2006-05-08

Posts 469
Maryland

2 posted 2006-07-20 01:41 AM

powerful and dissilusioning

I am the two-toed wanderer

Marge Tindal

Member Empyrean

since 1999-11-06

Posts 42384
Florida's Foreverly Shores

3 posted 2006-07-20 12:31 PM

Slinger~
So nice to see you back here at the PiP Corral~

Your rodeo days may be over
but, it's sure nice to see
that you've spent more than 8 seconds on
that prize named POETRY~

Your poetry always rings the bell~

*Huglets*
~*Marge*~

~*The sound of a kiss is not as strong as that of a cannon, but it's echo endures much longer*~
Email - noles1@totcon.com

Enchantress
Member Empyrean

since 2001-08-14

Posts 35113
Canada eh.

4 posted 2006-07-20 12:41 PM

Hey Cowboy!
I've missed reading you...
So good to see you posting once again.
I love your rodeo stories.
Hugs~Nancy

For it was not into my ear you whispered
But into my heart..
It was not my lips you kissed
But my soul.

aziza
Member Elite

since 2006-07-09

Posts 2995
Lumpy Oatmeal makes me Crazy!

5 posted 2006-07-21 03:23 AM

You touched me.

aziza

Midnitesun

Member Empyrean

since 2001-05-18

Posts 28647
Gaia

6 posted 2006-07-21 11:38 PM

sunsets are beautiful
enjoy yours

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