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Night Watch
Side by side we watched the sky.
orange to rose then twilight gray,
feel the daylight slipping away.
We escort the setting sun,
painting the clouds has begun
Black now shows a thousand lights,
stars have entered , command the night.
He rests his head on the pasture gate,
together , every night we wait
He wanders off to the half dead pine.
His shadows outlined by the moonshine,
dust from the path with each step is tossed.
With this some of the ground is lost.
ever changing the stockyard view,
we share this together just us two.
He gives a sigh and wanders away,
chases the kittens away from the hay.
We will be back before the dawn,
watch the dew burn off the lawn.
Peach pale soft and blushing rose,
are the colors this morning chose.
To steak the pond and glaze the sky,
a streak of splendor, then good-bye.
The pale silver sky is our view,
clouds changing to a dull pale hue.
He leaves to inspect the rusty windmill,
stops in the sunlight to kill the chill.
Three years together in the sun and shade,
walking through the prairie sage.
A sad longing in his eyes as he drinks in the view
Never asking me, do you love this too?
There are some things you just must do,
I open the gate and let him go through.
Head held high he jumps to a lope,
gallops away up the meadow slope.
Out in the sagebrush he will stay,
The last of the Mustangs will live his way.
Stopping to read the desert air,
Finds the scent of his love, the mare.
Filled with pride and stepping high,
cross the flatland, she is near by.
Together at last, never to part
They run up the canyon at a fast trot.
Does he ever think of me,
or am I just the fool that set him free?
One will be watching the evening sky.
kay lee kelly
(C)2001
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