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Date Posted: 22:18:11 11/29/00 Wed
Author: Jjaz
Subject: Campfire Cowboy

Fire mixed with September moon
Threw shadows against tall trees
The sound crackle in to the distance
Of sap bursting into the night

The heat was like a warm caress
As my mind wandered beyond
The last town I was in yesterday
Was hardly mud hole, no place for me

I travel only with horse and gear
And clothes that are truly worn
A pair of boots with barely a soul
While finding this place my home

Ah, the fire that is quietly singing
And holding me to my path
Goes far ahead tomorrow’s song
Of a lonely trail bum and his mount

And the blanket of stars that cover me
Are consistent each and every night
As the cold September moon reminds me
Of the wondering cowboy that I am

I left home at sixteen year old
Nothing left there for me to do
And these ten last years of tramping
Have saddled me to my ways

Perhaps one day I shall settle down
Some small acreage for a farm
With a wife to bare some children
And proper schoolin for them all

But, now my life is confined in this space
Of a lighted campfire and its shadows
As I have no need for more worries
While I sleep peaceable in my world

Alone, next to the fire.

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