Wednesday, September 4, 2013

Blue Sky Lightning

Blue Sky Lightning
(For Elaine)

Her name
sounds like a wildflower
Her voice is a rock and roll song
She's rare as blue sky lightning
There are no lies in her ocean
She's determined
as the rocky mountain rising sun
She's towed the heavy
Cinderella line
Blazed trails
across inner city swamps
and wandered the high country
where only heroes
and angels dare to tread
She's in the smile
on the faces of her children
She's the hope in their dreams
She drives the long desert road
in an old Ford hatchback
with Def Leppard on the radio
and an old dog and me by her side
Nothing is impossible in her try
No one ever forgets her face
She's blue sky lightning
with an endless summer
in her shine

Dewey Dirks

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