This Poem was Submitted By: Betty Lou Hebert On Date: 2000-04-18 17:29:18 . . . Click Here To Mail this Poem to a Friend!

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The Mustang Years

  I've come back to the desert,   where I came long years ago.   My pal and I caught horses   for a travelling rodeo.   We learned to know the secrets   of this mighty, awesome land,   a-trailing after mustangs   and we got to know each band.   Now some are lost to bullets   and the winters take some too   and some are gone for dog food   with their hooves made into glue.   Some of them are rounded up   and adopted out they say,   but some still roam this country,   for I saw their tracks today.   Lying here upon the ground   and just staring at the sky,   I guess it must be raining   for I don't know how to cry.   My cheeks are wet with something,   so I guess it must be tears,   reliving all the mem'ries   of those vanished, mustang years.

Copyright © April 2000 Betty Lou Hebert

Additional Notes:
mustang - a wild horse of North American plains and high desert country


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