One true cowboy

Like all the others I've said I'll keep working on the same goes for this one. I had this part in my head and wanted to get it written down.

He listens to the wind

biting cold and stinging

there's a blizzard coming in

and he won't be going home tonight

There's a thousand head of cattle

needing to be fed

and the newborn calves are coming

some will end up dead

Some will ask why he does this

work his life away

No Title

It's been so many years

And all the time that's passed

had me forgetting

why I left

This place has stood here waiting

taking weather good and bad

Holding up reminders

of the life we had

We thought we knew better

Thought there was more life out there

but it all comes back

home never leaves

Believe

This poem is in bits and pieces right now, I'll keep working on it.

I can see the tears across your face

the ones you always try to hide

I know they've been saying things again

the ones who call themselves your friends

Even though you say it's nothing

even though you say your fine

Who are you going to believe?

There are some who will call you cripple

and those that look the other way

Just stop and listen
For once stand still

While the songs of the nations
play on and on

They roads they had taken

seem to be all but gone

but if you'll remember

the stories haven't died

walk away

I left today

finally snapped the bind

that's had me here so long

can't turn back

because then I've lost

how did I become so numb

and forget to cry

how did I forget who I am

let them take away everything inside

I've tried so many times

to just walk away

afraid of what would happen

if I didn't stay

but you turned me cold

made me who I am right now

life will move on

your words will hit a stone wall

can't reach me anymore

I've cut all ties

and learned to walk away

Somehow these stories

always find a way into my heart

as if I were living and breathing them

as if somehow I was a part of them

The things I can see

the things I can hear

aren't just some foreign imagination

they make themselves very clear

Come listen, come walk with me

they say

come dance with me

today is a good day

It seems so easy

to just brush it aside

without a moments thought

and then I forget, for a while

They are still there

waiting, watching

shouting and prodding

How can I not listen

when I am the only one who can hear?

how can I

walk away

Push back

I've wandered here for long enough

traveled every desperate road

been pushed down, thrown back and hurt along the way

but still, I won't cry

You think you can see what's in a persons heart

by what they say or what they do

there are things you'll never understand

but that doesn't make them any less true

You don't need to tell me,

to rub it in so deep

I already know

and I'll keep walking anyway

cause somewhere along the way

I've closed my heart

those lessons are hard won

and it's time to push back

The masks that I wear are plenty

and some days they seem to meld

I hold so tightly to these walls Iv'e built around me

but sometimes I forget to close them off completely

Yet still there are some

who will always have my heart

and I'll take every frustration pushed my way

those are few and far in between

and they'll never go away

Step into the distance

of a far forgotten past

Listen to the old ones

they have a voice at last

Their heart beats never left us

their footsteps never stilled

their memories all around us

they wait for us to feel