By chris
Date: 2008 Dec 04
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In Some Lights I See

In some lights I see
the woman who's known pain
and lived
to tell about it
with every heartbreaking
detail sharp and clear
as diamonds
or cut
glass.
In some lights I can see
her smile -
brighter than the sun
that warms our arms
as we walk a trail together
whose end we do not
know and cannot see.
Still,
we go...

In some lights I see
her as a child of the desert -
at home on back roads
that appear
to head nowhere
but always lead to views as
beautiful
as the woman who brought
me there.
Other times I see
the girl moving her hands
to the music on the radio
whispering the words
that always seem to say
it all
as sagebrush flies past
under a sky
as big as the world.
In all lights I see
the free soul
I love
galloping across open range
with her Apache hair
blowing free,
wild and undone,
as she tightens the reigns
and races the setting sun.