Yes, you found it,
This is the road,
The one that’ll take me home.
Country girl,
With a heart for rock-n-roll.
Listening to your music,
Takes me there again,
Dark rooms with neon lights.
Strings that soothe,
The tremors at night.
Being swept away to a beat,
Fuels a passion inside me.
Drinks which prove,
A bleeding heart,
Will do just about anything.
Dance with you and with him,
Either way I lose myself with them.
This time I’m wiser,
I know what I want.
Leadership,
On the dance floor.
Submission,
To a higher power.
A desire,
With swift awakenings.
Wrap me in your lyrics,
Teach me with your strings,
Let’s dance.
Allowing, your lead.
Oldest Daughter & Red Headed Sister 
You yearn for home – to be with your family. I hope you find some time this summer to travel there.
Sweet poem – wistful.
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I do and I will be traveling soon, Shari. Time to fill that void. I cannot wait.
Thank you 🙂
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A true romantic.
Leslie
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Yes, just what one needs, I think. 🙂
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I felt a wistfulness in this–but it could just be my own projections.
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I think you spied a bit of something there, Starr.
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I do love the imagery! Are you going home, Audith?
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Thanks, Duke. Yes, I am to visit the siblings and loads of family. No dancing time, however.
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Oh, that will be fun! Excited? Dancing isn’t yucketh anyway!
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I am excited. They’ve been tweeting me to death about it. We’re doing a throwback tour of Colorado. I didn’t think you liked dancing, Duketh?
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Oh, I meant it is Yucketh! *laughs* That does sound like a really fun time. You should hunt some bear.
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That’s what I thought you’d say…
Hunt bear? Isn’t the right time of year I don’t think, but we will be hiking where I saw a huge bear. I was a teenager at the time and had refused to hike any further than the meadow that day, which is a long hike…long enough anyway. Well, everyone else decided to hike even further up to a place called Jasper, which is to tip top of the mountain and has wonderful fishing and snow in the summer. Pretty cool, right? Yes, well, I had agreed to watch my little sister explore in the meadow by the river. Play in the water..pick flowers, chase butterflies… you know all those unmanly things. She and I saw a bear…he didn’t bother us, but boy I was worried worried worried. I wonder if he’ll come see me this time?
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Oh my! That would be worrisome. Well, if he does, I hope he’s sweet. (Girls are allowed to do unmanly things!) Was it a Grizzly?
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I was pretty scared, actually. Fifteen and in charge of an eleven year old in the middle of the Rocky Mountains and a bear passes by. My hope was that he’d already eaten someone else. We stood like statues. I knew they weren’t afraid of water, so the river wasn’t an option. We hid near a boulder and watched him walk away. Maybe it was a she, and did seem a bit young, so that may be what saved us. I think I made my sister sit there for a long time. Hours, I bet. Just hoping the bear was long gone. For sure, it was a Grizzly. It’s a beautiful place and there are a lot of hikers, so the bear may have been a bit used to us being around. (I do enjoy lots of unmanly things in manly areas, which most men do not like women to do.)
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That is such a neat story. It would have been frightening. And you did the smartest thing for sure. Could you have climbed a tree? (A Humdinger! Still trying to wrap my head around that!)
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Climbed a tree, yes, but I don’t think any of them would have been good tree climbing material, however. (It didn’t make sense, then, huh?)
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Bears can be so vicious. That is a scary story! (Well, I’m heartless and brainless, so I’m a bit thick.)
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Yes, it was scary. We were protected. Can you image at 15 being left to you’re own devices on a mountain. Life was a bit different a few short years ago. Now, I’m not so sure parents would do that…ever. (I just meant that I like hanging out with men while they do manly things and I be slightly girly in my impression of what they’re doing.)
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How many years ago, was that? Yes, I think you’re right. You should have had a tank gun.
(Oh, I understand! And I like that, actually.)
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Duke? Are you trying to figure out how old I am… What’s a tank gun? The big gun that is on a tank? Or is that too obvious?
(Most men do, you know.)
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Of course I am! Well, I’ve just seen that gun and one can actually shoot it and carry it. It’s very long, and loud!
(Aha!)
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But you don’t tell me how old you are, so why should I tell you? Although, it pains me not to give you what you want.
That gun sounds horrible! You should try shooting it.
(Yep, they do, and they like when I laugh at them and encourge their strange behavior.)
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Oh, I”m just being wicked. You need not tell me. I should shoot that some day…
(Oh! That does make sense, I think, you know.)
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I know you are…do you think one day we’ll tell each other. You could ask around. Other people know, but I don’t tell you because you don’t tell me. *smiles brightly* You should! Where did you see it?
(Are you sure? )
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Oh I think it will all be known one day. Then it will cease to be an interest, which is a pity. I saw it on a Youtube channel actually. Nick sent it to me.
(Oh, I”m never sure.)
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Well, that just makes me sad. Thanks a lot, Duke. How nice of Nick, he knows just what you like, doesn’t he.
(You always seem sure, which is why you are so great.)
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Nick actually liked it much more than I did (do)! Don’t be sad. It’ll be fun that way, too. I promise!
(I do?)
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So Nick is super scarey then? *laughs*
Yeah…maybe so.
(Could be?)
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Yes, he’s spicy! Now you have me doubting…
(I am!)
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Doubting what, exactly?
(You really are!)
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When everything’s revealed.
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Then don’t reveal…is that an option?
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It’s funny, some of the fam are curious, but they really don’t want to know.
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Do you think it would change things?
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It might change things…but change can be for the better! What do you think?
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Yes, change can be for the better. I don’t know, I’m not sure I’m the best person to ask. I haven’t revealed myself completely.
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In a way, yes.
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I think you’ll know what to do.
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Oh yeah….. sing it babe! Pursed lips and a bit of chair dancing. Thank you…
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🙂
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