Wyatt Earp felt the cold sweat
As fear creeped and sneaked up his spine

His fate was sealed, for certain
The grim reaper knew
that he was next in line

As the minutes went on
And the scalpings continued
Oh lord....Earp cried out in concern

Just then a Sioux brave
chopped his head from his body
And threw his carcass in the flames
and watched it burn

Let me sleep for a plethora of ages
if only you would be mine

Let me wander the deserts forsaken by the lack of your figure divine

Let me be buried beneath all the hills with their cavernous caves and high peaks

I pray you, fair goddess, come take my hand
So that both you and I can be complete

"Pesky Humans..."
She thought to herself

After a few minutes of wondering what to do
she leaned over and asked mars

He wasn't very helpful

She cried out to her neighbor Venus,

but she was much too far to be able to hear her

So she just sighed
took a deep breath
shrugged her shoulders
and kept on smiling and being beautiful

"Absurd...this life makes no sense"

He sipped his cafe latte as he continued thinking

"I wish I could make sense of all this..."
"How I wish this all made sense..."

Suddenly he looked up and there she was....

They locked eyes...

Then she was gone...

*Again...

He grins and bears it
I don't know the reason

Day in and day out
season after season

Will this winter approaching
be the last for you, friend?
I hope you find strength
to push through to the end

Breath = Heavy

Life = Uphill

Boulder = Atlas

Grunting = Gravity

Exhaustion = Surrender

*Freedom

He couldn't read or write

but he was sharp
like a tack

This was quite common in his village

the lack of schools
the lack of running water

the absence of basic necessities here was appalling

one night he thought he heard something moving
over by the door where the shoes and sandals were kept

in the morning, he went over to area where he heard
the sound the night before

he scanned around for a few minutes
until he saw it

a black mamba coiled up
sleeping inside one of
his little sisters shoes

Always...
ALWAYS...
*Always make sure...