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XOx Uriah xOX
Senior Member

since 2006-02-11

Posts 1403
Virginia

0 posted 2006-07-31 01:01 PM

Oh Baby,
please try to forgive me.
I've gotta go
and I can't take you with me.
But, I'd like to thank you
for making me feel right at home.
Oh Baby,
please try not to cry.
It don't come easy
to tell you goodbye.
Winter is over
and too many dust-devils
done already blown.
You know in my head
I'm already gone.
So, if you'll help me
get my backpack back on...
My boots can catch up
with my wandering mind...
in destinations unknown.

You can join the ranks
of everybody who told me
that the limb I was on
just wouldn't hold me.
When it shakes with the weather
I branch out to another
and for as long as I can...
I hang on.
I'm sure that someday
I'll come crashing down.
If my wife won't forgive me,
I'll be back in town.
When the cold winds start
to blowing me 'round,
I'll come back and sing you a song.

I've always been
way out on a limb
of the Family Tree
and that ol' Tree of Life.
Bedrooms and bars
shelter my guitar.
There's no handle on me.
You can go ask my wife.
And forks in the road
sometimes cut like a knife.

Earth Angel
Member Empyrean

since 2002-08-27

Posts 40215
Realms of Light

1 posted 2006-07-31 01:51 PM

Methinks this be one fine achy-breaky country song and I'd love to hear ya sing it!

~ and the ending really hurts! ~ Figuratively and literally! "And forks in the road
sometimes cut like a knife."

XO, yer a man of soul song!

Linda

divine chaos
Senior Member

since 2006-07-09

Posts 617
dancing 'neath the moon

2 posted 2006-07-31 06:49 PM

I'm having a love/hate relationship with
this poem. Love the write .. but the subject hits so close to home, wanna poke him in the eye :p
(couldn't stop reading it though)

~*Sheli*~

By words the mind is winged
~Aristophanes~

seraphin
Senior Member

since 2000-09-24

Posts 1004
Michigan

3 posted 2006-07-31 06:53 PM

Earth Angel said it all. Very nice write.

passing shadows
Member Empyrean

since 1999-08-26

Posts 45577
displaced

4 posted 2006-07-31 07:12 PM

oh that ending

yep

Seymour Tabin
Member Empyrean

since 1999-07-07

Posts 31720
Tamarac Fla

5 posted 2006-07-31 08:34 PM

Uriah,
That limb on the tree of life will stay awhile, as long as you smile. Excellent

Kristabell
Senior Member

since 2003-11-29

Posts 678
Portland, OR

6 posted 2006-07-31 10:15 PM

True that.

"Use your imagination not to scare yourself to death but to inspire yourself to life."

The Lady
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-12-26

Posts 7634
The Southwest

7 posted 2006-07-31 10:40 PM

you're a poet and a picker
you're a prophet and a pusher
you're a pilgrim and a preacher
well you know...
you're a walkin' contradiction and
I love what you do

do it some more...

I love the ending...

El_Campeador
Senior Member

since 2003-01-29

Posts 761
Ohio, USA

8 posted 2006-08-02 07:55 AM

Yes, I've experienced the pain of a fork in the road, too... Thank you for sharing, Larry...

Ben

“We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best that we can find in our travels is an honest friend.” –Robert Louis Stevenson

LeeJ
Member Patricius

since 2003-06-19

Posts 13296

9 posted 2006-08-02 09:36 AM

this was all to real, brought back some memories, but more so, made me smile...
thanks for the morning sun, now, can you do something bout this heat?

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