Cowboy Singer

Cowboy singer – where

were you when I was so

young and lived the songs

you now sing -- the ones about

growing up sad like me being

picked last for a backyard team

the skinny lad with one

fat friend and a daddy

who drank far too much?

Your words are soothing

about a long lost love

somehow captured by your

voice and the pleading

in your words about

overcoming the things which

held you back same as I

at such a childhood

age not understanding tears

were not just for sissies but many

came from one’s broken heart.