Modern Cowboy

Just woke up and quickly turned

The lights and radio, became attuned

Partly listening to explanations why

Why to live and why other people die

Last night dream joined the fragmented team

Glimpse of reality well inside the main stream

Back in the coach, brown leather saddle

The horse, the groovy MPV the struggle

Wore his Stetson hat and friendly mask

Ventured to the prairie back on dusty track

Another day of chase without a substantial hunt

Contemplating on near future and an imagined past

Back in town stepped back on sandy soil

The one he trod with phony legs

Not really certain what comes or happens next

Regressed back to the ranch to hoarder’s nest

The trend, fake, illusion all remarkably bold

Mixed with the desert heat and the night’s cold

Modern cowboy will wake up tomorrow and say

I am good and ready for another precious day

                            Copyright © 2009 Josef Firestone