Horses

I’m high in the saddle

Traveling along a stream

Atop my pretty pony

More than I could dream

I’ve got mountains and moonlight

Enough to make me smile

I’ve got the longest view

That I haven’t seen in a while

I’m with all the pretty horses

With all their big brown eyes

And it momentarily forces

An unexpected sweet surprise

A sky like a clear blue ocean

Nearly more than I can stand

Right now just filled with emotion

That stretches across the land

I like the big black mares

Running wild and so free

Their flowing manes without a care

Their spirits just like me

I like the raring stallion

Running wild and so untamed

I too am like the stallion

So here is where I came

To be with all these pretty horses

Freed from the confines of their pen

To gallop ever so effortlessly

Just to return back there again

I watch from my favorite vista

They seem to breeze through uncharted courses

But they truly know their way

As if guided by unseen forces

I’m high in the saddle

An unending stampede of resources

That tells me I am where I belong

With all the pretty horses

Hope

Long before there was misery

Long before there was pain

Light years beyond the cosmos

A universe cried in vain

Disbelief misled and destroyed hope

Assured it knew just when

Hope died before and was buried

Hope will never die again

Disparity came upon it

But hope believed away the doubt

It repressed fear then hope decided

It was what hope was all about

Many have a cause or mission

To donate to disparity

Well we can’t applaud so rightly so

Or give to that charity

Hope has never lied to sincerity

It will never live in fear

It can do all things we never do

Like believe when nothing’s there

Hope is alive and is aplenty

It’s always waiting at the door

Unabated hearts turn the key

Hope will live forever more

Away 

As the shadows come

On this afternoon

That took away the sun

Shame on the moon

A love was lost

Now the day’s turning gray

Everyone is so blue

Since you went away

Now the evening shows reflection

As the afternoon starts to fade

It has closed the door turned off the light

And pulled down the shade

The twilight now seems empty

Not a star left in the sky

The purple streaks have erased the glare

To another day goodbye

A lifetime now it seems

All the moments begin to stack

What we had for oh so long

Is never coming back

And that feeling in the morning

If we shut our eyes

Such confusion mixed emotion

What a terrible surprise

So many things have changed

In such little time and space

The others we will hear no more

They cannot show their face

Like others who’ve come and gone

In a memory you will stay

Though there is much emptiness

Since you went away

Anyone Like Me 

Is there anyone out here like me

Underneath this Moab sky

I’ve been through the fiery furnace

Just listen I’ll tell you why

Who painted all this landscape

Carved these petroglyphs I see

Who picked and picked these pictographs

Were they just like me

Is there anyone near Arches

Am I supposed to be

Thinking there is someone out here

Is there anyone like me

I’m not like most I’ll travel

Off the beaten path

I’ll let others sort it out

Let them do the math

I’m not trying to set examples

I just want my time on earth

To be all the things I’m living for

And to be all that it’s worth

These open roads before me

Like my imagination they will branch

But I must be heading back now

To the Sorrel River Ranch

There was no one out here like me

At least out on their own

And with someone I won’t be

Traveling all alone

I’m sure as I keep going

Soon someone will be

And if you are looking to venture out

With anyone like me