BobbyC777 Poetry (4)

I used to hurt people
Now I'm afraid
Used to burst forth like sunrise
Now I cower in the shade

Used to talk on unending
Now I rarely make a sound
Once the envy of high classes
Now no one has me come around

I'm starting to get nervous
Writing on here and now
Once not trying to be clever
Think I need to lay down

Believe I need you
Here now

Waiting for the dawn
We know is coming
So far from our home
But we gotta keep running

Yesterdays are mere dreams
Kept safe in our hearts
To make us have hope
As our world falls apart

Tell me where we are going
And where are we now?
God, when will this be over?
Will we make it somehow?

Flaming hot horizon
Sunlit wings stream bright white
Over misty morning moisture meadow mayhem
Kissing away darkness from night

Flowers raise up erectly
Again blooming on long
While birds sing over and again
An old-fashioned sing-a-long song

Butterflies flit and flirt
In meadows of painted spring dawn
Waving wonder in each wisp
Childlike dreams of Someone

Can anyone yet say
When fair winds will again play
Along the hills of my blue West Virginia?

In better of times
Coal flowed rich from the mines
My son you just had to have been there

But along '59
Big machines rolled online
And the young wives of miners saw worry

Beginning of the end?
No they could not pretend
Their dreams become a cold coal dust slurry

Twas mighty colliers hands
That did build up this land
Till their seasons bled through gray December

And when it's my time
Bury me deep in a coal mine
So my West Virginia miner's soul will remember