The answer sought in movies
seen in tender years
Blue rode beyond the desert
to a home beyond his fears.
And when the movie ended
I hadn't seen the last
for he rode into my future
I didn't know his past.
"I found the desert - wisdom
all that youth does lack.
It led me to the starlight
I never could come back."
In youth I had my hero,
The ghost of Pecos Bill
I rope his whispering ghost wind
and forever says I will."
"When you search out in the desert
For trails you're always losin'
You're lookin' for the starlight
but are caught up in you doin' ".
"The trail to friends is well wore
but friends are rare, it's true
when winters cold and chips are down
there's just your horse and you."
"The trail of pleasure is hard to track
it's there and then it fades
Every hand poured from a square
is lost before it's played.
The trail to glory, title and name
goes anywhere you please
A trail disdained by heroes,
a circle of cold degrees."
"The trail to gold is danger,
filled with the bones of greed.
Gold is the passion of fools,
the vultures await their feed."
"The trail to love is elusive,
no trail at all, but stone.
True love is not a merging
but shared together - alone."
I felt a strange new presence,
the warmth of a father's hand
as if I were one with the quiet,
the stars, my tears, and sand.
Cowboy Blue came to me
and quietly entered my soul.
There a Cowboy broken,
the quiet - found me whole.