Ive forgtten the path and strayed from thou course <br />like a cowboy who has somehow lost his horse <br />wandering aimlessly amoungst the desert plants <br />making himself busy like the desert ants <br />this way and that life pulls the lonely man <br />He keeps his brim low to keep out the sand <br />because dust blows here out in the american west <br />it can chew you up and put you to the test <br />take your values and strip them away <br />and you sigh as they part and beg them to stay <br />but what are values when no one gives them weight <br />like honesty and chivalry? dead to this date <br />so easy it would be to silence the voices inside <br />they tell me somethings wrong when i have lied <br />who cares if i told a lie to another <br />in ths world hes not considered my brother <br />but there was a time and a place i know <br />that love was not just something on a tv show <br />it wasnt three words you say with fast breath <br />its something you said and did untill death <br />so bring me down with your pessimistic minds <br />wear me down like a river that grinds <br />grind away my dreams wear away my soul like bits of sand <br />wear me down untill i am no longer a man <br />just a shadow a vacant shell of what once was <br />im this way now forever because....<br /><br />Sean FitzPatrick<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/desert-desertion/
