If you go away on a Summer day…

If you go away on a Summer day…

1- Once we loved the Wisconsin wild river,
and we sought quiet places to hold hands and I would steal kisses.
We adored the torrent water and we tried to follow the river,
to secret places where lovers could dance nude with the sun in view.
I remember you demanded strong whiskey and the hard metal songs.
We lived for the day and we didn’t care about tomorrow.
We didn’t want to live forever.
2-  The twilight of my life is here.
I have seen everything and I have seen nothing.
I was wise and I was foolish. I preferred the days of Tomfoolery.
I have known anger and now I know kindness.
Tonight I whispered a sweet name.
Cathy, beautiful Cathy. I remember your last words to me.
You told me. Soldier, if I went away on a Summer day, I would never return.
I told the night and the Wisconsin river.
Dear Cathy, I remember you and I know.
Time is a ugly thief.
I learn too late.
You can’t return to the place you left from.
The city, the river don’t change. We do.
Tonight I drink whiskey in Iron Mountain, Michigan.
I told the night,
I need a kind woman, I need to laugh again.
I need to smile again.
I told the face in the tavern mirror.
The saddest thing we can do,
is die alone.
Coyote