A Prayer for me
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A prayer for me
Please friend, whisper a prayer for me. I had lived swimming in sin, gin and bad love. Today I’m barren and alone.
A long time ago. I held great dreams, I thought love would be forever and I was going to save our world. I learned the vodka and juice wasn’t my savior too late. Old men and old women who find the purgatory Inn. Last Tavern for the wasters of life and love, are just waiting for the proper ending.
Somehow I got twisted-up and I got used up. I fell in love with bad women, the long highway and the new cities.
I learn, the highways, they never end. The vodka and juice become more bitter with time. The traveling and the rambling man who laid no foundation. He will died alone.
Men who never show real face, need a prayer and a wish. The taverns people do pray for the lost comrades. No funeral or grave for the people who loved so few. Just drunk men and women wishing. Their friend had finally found peace.
John Castellenas/Coyote
Hope you don’t mind that I nominated you to join but thought it’d be fun and would love to hear / see you answers.
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I’m off to bed now. Maybe in the morning. Here in the USA. Almost 1 am. Thank you Laura.
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John, it’s a very touching one.
Awesome.
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Thank you Shreya for reading and the comment. I do appreciate.
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Deeply profound, John.
Your poem reminds me
of a Dylan song, ‘Only a Hobo’.
A man who left nobody
“… to sing his sad song.
Leaving nobody to carry him home.
… only a hobo,
but one more is gone.”
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Hard night when you must carry yourself home. Thank you David for reading and the comment. I do appreciate.
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Yes, so much of what people search for is emptiness.
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You are right Kim. I saw the old timers in the Army. I would tell them. God will forgive you. They didn’t believe. Thank you for reading and the comment. I do appreciate.
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