We knew an old cowboy <br />who drove a Cadillac <br />put a small fortune in it <br />and always wore a hat <br />had no kids to speak of <br />no wife to come home to <br />became a man in Vietnam <br />whether or not he wanted to <br />knew the inside of a bar <br />better than his own bedroom <br />genie in a bottle <br />was his only refuge <br />made friends across the states <br />whose names he couldn't recall <br />thought he wouldn't be missed <br />the night he almost lost it all <br />a pill to stop the drinking <br />a drink that wouldn't mix <br />out before he knew what hit him <br />and brought him to this <br />out of a car we didn't know <br />came a face we couldn't forget <br />like a ghost we thought we'd never see <br />walking more than two years after that wreck <br />never was short on kindness <br />always went the extra mile <br />with a story that would chill the warmest mans' bones <br />he told with a sober smile <br />28 bones broken <br />jail and rehab before he healed <br />seeing the world first time in years <br />from a stone home shared with killers <br />as he showed us pictures <br />a young beauty that was his <br />hadn't seen her in 25 years <br />when she was his three year old kid <br />grew up with in the same battle <br />fighting the same demon <br />she won't have to fight alone anymore <br />because now she has him<br /><br />Lauren B Called<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-story-not-over/
